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adjective

Maxillary, Maxillar adj.

(Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.

(Zool.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.

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Etymology of 'Maxillary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... had commenced to cicatrize. I later examined three circular mounds, but in them I found no dolmens. The first mound contained three adult human skeletons, a few fragments of the skeleton of a child, the lower maxillary of which indicated it to be about six years old. I also found claws of some carnivorous animal. The surface of the soil had been scooped out and the bodies laid in the excavation and covered with about a foot of earth; fires had then been made upon the grave and the mound afterwards completed. ...

— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow

... infests the eastern coast of the island, where it attains a length of from twelve to fifteen feet, including the serrated rostrum from which its name is derived. This powerful weapon seems designed to compensate for the inadequacy of the ordinary maxillary teeth which are unusually small, obtuse, and insufficient to capture and kill the animals which form the food of this predatory shark. To remedy this, the fore part of the head and its cartilages are prolonged into a flattened plate, the length of which is nearly ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

Words linked to "Maxillary" : sutura intermaxillaris, upper jaw, maxillary artery, maxilla, upper jawbone, external maxillary artery