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
The irritating insects have organs called maxillary palps that allow them to detect carbon dioxide from their prey.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
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
It ordered his hand to seize the spoon, his mouth to receive the victual, his inferior maxillary jaw to get in motion, and itself accomplished the usual functions of digestion, unordered.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
The anterior ends are pointed; the lateral margins are parallel to the maxillaries.
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
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
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
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
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