maxillary
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The irritating insects have organs called maxillary palps that allow them to detect carbon dioxide from their prey.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2022
This is especially true of the maxillary sinuses, under each eye.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
It’s a maxillary matter, as simple as that.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
The maxillary sinuses are most commonly involved during sinus infections.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The Phrynidæ are very peculiar looking animals, the anterior legs being very long and slender and the maxillary palpi very large.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
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 Duellman, William E.
Ossification lengthens the posterior termini of the maxillaries to the posterior edge of the orbit.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
One hundred inferior maxillaries began to castanet away like mad.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
After the maxillaries and premaxillaries develop, the vomers appear as small horizontal ossifications anterior to the parasphenoid.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
Vomerine teeth lacking; internal choanae lateral, partly concealed by maxillaries; tongue smooth, elongate, shallowly notched distally, free for about half its length; vocal sac median; internal vocal slits large and near angle of jaw.
From A New Species of Frog (Genus Tomodactylus) from Western Mexico by Webb, Robert G.
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