* A portion of a bone ( from Latin ramus, " branch "), as in the Ramus of the mandible or Superior pubic ramus

A branch ( or, ) or tree branch ( sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus ) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree ( or sometimes a shrub ).

The parotid gland is a salivary gland wrapped around the mandibular ramus in humans.

It is located posterior to the mandibular ramus an in front of the mastoid process of temporal bone.

The suboccipital nerve is the dorsal primary ramus of the first cervical nerve ( C1 ).

The greater occipital nerve is a spinal nerve, specifically the medial branch of the dorsal primary ramus of cervical spinal nerve 2.

* The anterior branch ( ramus anterior ; facial branch ) is distributed to the skin of the face over the parotid gland, and communicates in the substance of the gland with the facial nerve.

* The posterior branch ( ramus posterior ; mastoid branch ) supplies the skin over the mastoid process and on the back of the auricula, except at its upper part ; a filament pierces the auricula to reach its lateral surface, where it is distributed to the lobule and lower part of the concha.

It is wrapped around the mandibular ramus, and secretes saliva through Stensen's ducts into the oral cavity, to facilitate mastication and swallowing and to begin the digestion of starches.

The gland is related anteromedially to the mandibular ramus, masseter and medial pterygoid muscles.

Among the contrasts are the condyle, which is well above the tooth row ( instead of at about the same height ); and the ascending ramus, which is also higher.

The rhomboid major, like the rhomboid minor, is innervated by the ventral primary ramus via the dorsal scapular nerve ( C5 ).

The Mandibular foramen is an opening on the internal surface of the ramus ( posterior and perpendicularly oriented part of the mandible ) for divisions of the mandibular vessels and nerve to pass.

The retromolar space or retromolar gap is a space at the rear of a mandible, between the back of the last molar and the anterior edge of the ascending ramus where it crosses the alveolar margin.

It is innervated by the suboccipital nerve, the dorsal ramus of the first spinal nerve.

The ascending mandibular ramus of this species is relatively broad.

It is further subdvided into the vertical part V3v passing vertically upwards, crossing the C2 root and entering the foramen transversarium of C1, and the horizontal part V3h, curving medially and posteriorly behind the superior articular process of the atlas, the anterior ramus of the first cervical nerve being on its medial side ; it then lies in the groove on the upper surface of the posterior arch of the atlas, and enters the vertebral canal by passing beneath the posterior atlantoöccipital membrane.

Given that the origin is on the medial side of the lateral pterygoid plate and the insertion is from the internal surface of the ramus of the mandible down to the angle of the mandible, its functions include:

* Mandibular foramen, paired, in the inner ( medial ) aspect of the mandible, superior to the mandibular angle in the middle of the ramus.

This mandible and ramus was acquired by Sartono in 1993, and has been dated to between 1. 4 and 0. 9 million years ago.

Its fibers pass downward and backward, to be inserted into the angle and lower half of the lateral surface of the ramus of the mandible.

Its fibers pass downward and forward, to be inserted into the upper half of the ramus and the lateral surface of the coronoid process of the mandible.

* Mandibular body or ramus hyperplasia, the mandible moves to the unaffected side.

Lesions will occur in the mandible and maxilla, although 75 % occur in the ascending ramus area and will result in extensive and grotesque deformitites of the mandible and maxilla.

Its fibers pass downward, lateral, and posterior, and are inserted, by a strong tendinous lamina, into the lower and back part of the medial surface of the ramus and angle of the mandible, as high as the mandibular foramen.

Following studies, carried out keeping the find on the discovery site, have verified this aspect of typical Neanderthalians features ( morphology of eye-sockets and upper orbit osseous thickening, lack of canine fossa and presence of a clear edge on the maxilla, thickening of the occipital bone, feature of the mastoid process, existence of a retromolar space and profile of the upper margin of the ascending mandible ramus ).

The facial artery arises in the carotid triangle from the external carotid artery a little above the lingual artery and, sheltered by the ramus of the mandible, passes obliquely up beneath the digastric and stylohyoid muscles, over which it arches to enter a groove on the posterior surface of the submandibular gland.

The fibers and cysts will be found among the trabecula of the Coronoid process, the ramus of mandible, the body of mandible and the maxilla regions.

The levator ani arises, in front, from the posterior surface of the superior ramus of the pubis lateral to the symphysis ; behind, from the inner surface of the spine of the ischium ; and between these two points, from the obturator fascia.

* Coronoid process, superior and anterior projection from the ramus.

On emerging from the hypoglossal canal, it gives off a small meningeal branch and picks up a branch from the anterior ramus of C1.

It arises from the lateral branch of the ventral ramus of the second cervical nerve, sometimes also from the third ; it curves around and ascends along the posterior border of the Sternocleidomastoideus.

The dorsal scapular nerve arises from the brachial plexus, usually from the plexus root ( anterior / ventral ramus ) of C5.

Each gland lies posterior to the mandibular ramus and in front of the mastoid process of temporal bone.

A part of the muscle may extend between the ramus and medial pterygoid as the pterygoid process.

Two of the most prominent and most regularly found are the ascending ( also called vertical ) ramus and the horizontal ramus of the lateral fissure, which subdivide the inferior frontal gyrus.

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