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
In animals with teeth, the mandible brings the surfaces of the teeth in contact with the maxillary teeth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 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
In the Decapoda, where the antennal gland alone is well-developed in the adult, the maxillary gland sometimes precedes it in the larva.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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
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 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 premaxillaries are separated medially, and laterally from the maxillaries by sutures.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
The nasals are large, widest anteriorly and narrowing posteriorly, parallel to maxillaries, and not separated from the ethmoid by cartilage.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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