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
This is especially true of the maxillary sinuses, under each eye.
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 branches include the lingual, facial, occipital, maxillary, and superficial temporal arteries.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Proteroglypha, prot-e-rog′li-fa, n.pl. a group of snakes having the anterior maxillary teeth grooved.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The long axes of the nasals are not parallel to the maxillaries.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
But here, singularly enough, the inferior maxillaries gave out, and her jaw dropped.
From Tales of the Argonauts by Bret Harte
Because of its coalescence with the maxillaries, the intermaxillary in man was not discovered until Vicq d'Azyr and Goethe found it separate in the embryo.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The maxillaries bear well-developed dorsal flanges, curve gently, join the moderately convex premaxillaries anteriorly and form a slightly truncate snout.
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
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