Word Meanings - JAWBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

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• 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.
• MANDIBLE
  The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
• EITHER
  MHG. iegeweder); a + ge + hwæ whether. See Each, and Whether, and cf. 1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one. Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither
• 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.
• SUPRAMAXILLARY
  Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
• PRAEMAXILLA
  See PREMAXILLA
• SUPERMAXILLARY
  Supermaxillary.
• ADMAXILLARY
  Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
• NEITHER
  Not either; not the one or the other. Which of them shall I take Both one or neither Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. Shak. He neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak. (more info) nahwæ; na never, not + hwæ whether. The word
• 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.