Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper one.
- noun A maxillary bone; a jawbone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The posterior of the two bones which border the upper jaw in osseous fishes. It usually bears teeth in the soft-rayed fishes, but in the spiny-rayed fishes the teeth are confined to the prem axillary.
- Of or pertaining in any way to a jaw or jaw-bone; specifically, of or pertaining to the maxilla alone, in any of the special senses of that word: as, the maxillary bones of a vertebrate; the maxillary palps of an insect.
- noun A jawbone; a maxillary bone, or maxilla.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
jaw orjawbone - noun The
jawbone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the upper jaw
- noun the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those composing the face are, the two _nasal_, two _superior maxillary, _ two _lachrymal_, two _malar_ two _palate_, two _inferior turbinated, vomer_, and _inferior maxillary_.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The first of these gill-arches, and the most important for our purpose, which we may call the maxillary (jaw) arch, forms the skeleton of the jaws.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Martin said he and Burnham began to look through published descriptions of the animal and noticed noticed unique grooves in a bone in the upper-jaw called the maxillary, a bone often found in venomous animals.
Kansan.com stories 2010
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The four remaining branches arise from that portion of the internal maxillary which is contained in the pterygopalatine fossa.
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I saw the nice stomalogist/maxillary surgeon this afternoon at the curiously named Hôpital Deux Alices in Uccle, and she anaesthetised my jaw thoroughly and whipped out the errant fragments.
Gibbon Chapter XXI nwhyte 2010
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First tooth arrives - a maxillary lateral incisor - though status-conscious parents describe it to relatives as a bicuspid.
Gregory Beyer: Life of Bro: A Chronology Gregory Beyer 2011
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First tooth arrives - a maxillary lateral incisor - though status-conscious parents describe it to relatives as a bicuspid.
Gregory Beyer: Life of Bro: A Chronology Gregory Beyer 2011
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"This," he explained, "will distalize the maxillary arch in the right buccal segment and correct the Class 2 malocclusion."
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There is a surgical procedure, preferably performed under anaesthetic, for those who suffer from recurrent bouts of sinusitis in which the maxillary sinus is pierced via the nasal cavity, flushed out with saline and hey presto you wake up being able to breath again.
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There is a surgical procedure, preferably performed under anaesthetic, for those who suffer from recurrent bouts of sinusitis in which the maxillary sinus is pierced via the nasal cavity, flushed out with saline and hey presto you wake up being able to breath again.
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