maxillary
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maxillaries
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Compared with related beetles, members of this genus have exceptionally long and slender mandibles, antennae, and maxillary palps.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
For this reason, it’s the maxillary sinuses that most often clog, and where most sinus infections first take hold.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
“If you tell a lay person” that a child has “mandibular hypoplasia, or maxillary deficiency, or adenoidal facies — it sounds bad,” said Vig.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2020
These are paired and located within the right and left maxillary bones, where they occupy the area just below the orbits.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Supramaxillary, sū-pra-mak′si-lā-ri, adj. pertaining to the upper jaw.—n. the superior maxillary or upper jaw-bone.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The maxillaries and præmaxillaries, which, with the mandibles, form the jaws, are dermal bones.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
The posteromedial points do not reach the lateral margins of the ethmoid, and the maxillary processes extend about three-fourths the distance from the bodies of the nasals to the maxillaries.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
Ossification lengthens the posterior termini of the maxillaries to the posterior edge of the orbit.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
The skull resembles that of Orca in the breadth of the upper jaw being produced by the maxillaries, whereas in Globicephalus this effect is caused by the premaxillaries.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
These differences in shape of the snout are dependent on the nature of the underlying cranial bones, principally the maxillaries and nasals.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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