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Maxillary   Listen
adjective
Maxillary, Maxillar  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
2.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.





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"Maxillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... other hysteric symptoms; whence I concluded, that the discharge was occasioned by the inverted motions of the lymphatics of the nostrils, like the pale urine in hysteric cases; and that they might receive this fluid from some other branches of lymphatic vessels opening into the frontal or maxillary cavities ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... patrino. Matron patronino, estrino. [Error in book: potronino] Matter sxtofo. Matter materialo. Matter (pus) puso. Mattock pikfosilo. Mattress matraco. Mature matura. Mature maturigi—igxi. Maturity matureco. Maul bategi. Maxillary makzela. Maxim proverbo. Maximum maksimumo. May (month) Majo. May-bug majskarabo. Mayhap eble. Mayor urbestro. Maze labirinto. Mazurka mazurko. Me (al) mi, min. Meadow herbejo. Meagre (poor) malricxa. Meal (flour) faruno. Meal mangxo. Mean (math.) mezakvanto. Mean ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... might have been born in the Island of Java, showed a face to scare the eye, as flat as a board, with the copper complexion peculiar to Malays, with a nose that looked as if it had been driven inwards by some violent pressure. The strange conformation of the maxillary bones gave the lower part of this face a resemblance to that of the larger species of apes. The brow, though sloping, was not deficient in intelligence produced by habits of cunning. Two fierce little eyes had the calm fixity of a tiger's, but they never ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... forms a segment of a circle; it is reddish, edged with a small number of very short, stiff hairs. The mandibles are powerful, red-brown, curved and sharp; when at rest they meet without crossing. The maxillary palpi are rather long, consisting of two cylindrical sections of equal length, the outer ending in a very short bristle. The jaws and the lower lip are not sufficiently visible to lend ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre


Words linked to "Maxillary" :   maxillary artery, hard palate, maxilla, intermaxillary suture, maxillary vein, upper jaw, sutura intermaxillaris


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