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No matter what its form may be, the head of an Ornithosaur always terminates in front in a single bone called the intermaxillary.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Goethe and Vicq d'Azyrs discovered at the same time the intermaxillary bone.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

And I apprehend that it was just this service which Goethe rendered by writing his essays on the intermaxillary bone, on osteology generally, and on the metamorphoses of plants.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.

Owing to the absence of superior incisors in ruminants, the intermaxillary bone presents no alveoli.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

The cutting teeth fixed in the intermaxillary bones of the Mammalia, and the corresponding teeth in the lower jaw.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne