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- noun Plural form of
maxillary .
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Examples
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(A spine before each nostril, probably springing from the heads of the maxillaries).
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Eye greyish yellow; teeth in a trenchant series on the edge of the upper and lower jaw, and also on the maxillaries.
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Other similar maxillaries, though belonging to individuals of various types and different nations, were found in the loose grey soil of certain grottoes in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, as well as weapons, tools, earthen utensils, bones of children and adults.
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[76] But in seeking for the intermaxillary bone in man he was guided by its position relative to the maxillaries -- it must be the bone between the anterior ends of the maxillaries, a bone whose limits are indicated in the adult only by surface grooves.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Because of its coalescence with the maxillaries, the intermaxillary in man was not discovered until Vicq d'Azyr and Goethe found it separate in the embryo.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Reichert in 1838 [225] noted that several of the skull bones in Amphibia are formed without the intermediary of cartilage, such as the nasals, the maxillaries and the lacrymals.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The first thing collected was an entire skull of the great cave bear, with its maxillaries in place.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Exaggerated prominence of the maxillaries is called prognathism; that of the superior maxilla is seen in the North American Indians.
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Exaggerated prominence of the maxillaries is called prognathism; that of the superior maxilla is seen in the North American Indians.
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The lower facial bones, including the maxillaries, were wanting.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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