premaxilla
Americannoun
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premaxillae
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Origin of premaxilla
From the New Latin word praemaxilla, dating back to 1865–70. See pre-, maxilla
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Those advances allowed the team to identify the bone as a premaxilla.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
One of the newly identified fossils is the premaxilla, the bone at the very front of the upper jaw.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Among those discoveries, the premaxilla stands out as one of the most important.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
This marks the first time a premaxilla has been confirmed in a mosasaur fossil discovered in Japan.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The upper jaw has a great bar of cartilage, the palato-pterygoid, as its sole support; the arch of premaxilla, maxilla, jugal, and squamosal-- all membrane bones-- is, of course, not represented.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Dr. Bhullar and Dr. Abzhanov set out to find some of the genetic changes that turned the dinosaur premaxillae into a beak.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
In our own skulls, these bones — called premaxillae — anchor some front teeth.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
Fgf8, for example, disappears from the region that will become the face long before the premaxillae develop.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
That change might have allowed birds to develop big, fused premaxillae — the precursors of beaks.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
Upper ends of the premaxillae nearly symmetrical, moderately elevated, slightly expanded, and not curved forward over the nostrils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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