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 consist of 14 bones, with the paired maxillary, palatine, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior conchae bones and the unpaired vomer and mandible bones.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Riley holds that the hypopharynx belongs to the mandibular and maxillary segments, while the cervical sclerites or gula represent the sternum of the labial segment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
The premaxillaries are separated medially, and laterally from the maxillaries by sutures.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
After the maxillaries and premaxillaries develop, the vomers appear as small horizontal ossifications anterior to the parasphenoid.
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 first thing collected was an entire skull of the great cave bear, with its maxillaries in place.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 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
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