Maxillary

Word MAXILLARY
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /mækˈsɪləɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Maxillary"

What do we mean by maxillary?

Of or relating to a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper one. adjective

A maxillary bone; a jawbone. 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. noun

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.

A jawbone; a maxillary bone, or maxilla. noun

Of or relating to the jaw or jawbone adjective

The jawbone noun

Of or relating to the upper jaw adjective

The jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium noun

The upper jawbone, or a tooth growing from the upper jawbone.

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The word "maxillary" in example sentences

Those composing the face are, the two _nasal_, two _superior maxillary, _ two _lachrymal_, two _malar_ two _palate_, two _inferior turbinated, vomer_, and _inferior maxillary_. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

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. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The four remaining branches arise from that portion of the internal maxillary which is contained in the pterygopalatine fossa. ❋ Unknown (1918)

First tooth arrives - a maxillary lateral incisor - though status-conscious parents describe it to relatives as a bicuspid. ❋ Gregory Beyer (2011)

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. ❋ Nwhyte (2010)

"This," he explained, "will distalize the maxillary arch in the right buccal segment and correct the Class 2 malocclusion." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miss Warden, suppose, just to refresh all our memories, you run over the foramina opening into the spheno-maxillary fossa, and the structures passing through them. ❋ Peggy (2007)

Form a clear mental picture of the spheno-maxillary fossa. ❋ Peggy (2007)

The percentage of the occurrence of dental caries based on the individuals was 77.8%, whereas the frequency of dental caries on tooth type and class was 17.1% 18.0% maxillary decay; 16.2% mandibular decay. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From the total sample of 400 modern individuals, a total of 5,208 maxillary teeth and 5,153 mandibular teeth were studied. ❋ Unknown (2009)

IF he has so much money why doesn't he have maxillary surgery to correct that toothless grin and help with the lisp? ❋ Tumor-tot (2009)

One use for the large maxillary "knobs" on some large pterosaur skulls could be to push rotten flesh out of the way as the pterosaur poked its snout deeper to eat nutritious organs like the liver. ❋ Peter Bond (2009)

There is a chapter or two of talk among the girls in the dissecting-room and the chemical laboratory, with much about the "spheno-maxillary fossa," the "dorsalis pedis," and the general whereabouts of "Scarpa's triangle." ❋ Peggy (2007)

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