The mandible is the second bone, next to the clavicle, to ossify in the body. Its greater part ossifies in membrane. The parts ossifying in cartilage include the incisive part below the incisor teeth, the coronoid and condyloid processes, and the upper half of the ramus above the level of the mandibular foramen.
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