Word Meanings - ADMAXILLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

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• JAWBONE
  The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
• MAXILLA
  One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. Note: There are usually two pairs in Crustacea and one pair in insects. In certain insects they are not used as jaws, but may form suctorial organs. See Illust. under Lepidoptera, and Diptera. (more
• MAXILLAR; MAXILLARY
  Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n.
• PREMAXILLA
  A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
• INTERMAXILLA
  See PREMAXILLA
• SEPTOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.
• PRAEMAXILLA
  See PREMAXILLA
• SUPRAMAXILLARY
  Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
• SUPERMAXILLARY
  Supermaxillary.
• ADMAXILLARY
  Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
• PTERYGOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.
• PREMAXILLARY
  Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillæ; intermaxillary. -- n.
• INTERMAXILLARY
  An intermaxilla. (more info) Of or pertaining to the intermaxillæ. -- n.
• SUPERMAXILLA
  The supermaxilla.
• INFRAMAXILLARY
  Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the lower iaw.
• SUPRAMAXILLA
  The upper jaw or maxilla.
• STYLOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.
• SUBMAXILLARY
  Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary; as, the submaxillary gland. Of or pertaining to submaxillary gland; as, submaxillary salvia.