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
The walls of the orbit are formed by contributions from seven bones: the frontal, zygomatic, maxillary, palatine, ethmoid, lacrimal, and sphenoid.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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
Pedipalp, ped′i-palp, n. a maxillipalp or maxillary palpus.—adj. pertaining to the same.—n.pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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