Word Meanings - MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.
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- NERVELESSNESS
The state of being nerveless. - MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR
Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve. - NERVELESS
1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne. - 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 - MANDIBULAR
Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. -- n. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - NERVED
Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved. - MAXILLAR; MAXILLARY
Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n. - NERVE-SHAKEN
Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked. - NERVE
One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each - 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. - MAXILLO-PALATINE
Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n. - MAXILLOTURBINAL
Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- 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. - UNNERVE
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak. - ENERVE
To weaken; to enervate. Milton. - QUINTUPLE-NERVED; QUINTUPLE-RIBBED
The same as Quinquenerved. - SUPRAMAXILLARY
Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw. - PRAEMAXILLA
See PREMAXILLA - RECTINERVED
Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves. - TRINERVE; TRINERVED
See TRINERVATE - SUPERMAXILLARY
Supermaxillary. - RETINERVED
Having reticulated veins.