Word Meanings - MAXILLOTURBINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.

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• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• 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
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• TURBINAL
  A turbinal bone or cartilage.
• SKULL
  A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.
• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
• SEPTOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.
• PSEUDOTURBINAL
  See TURBINAL
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• 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.
• SAPSKULL
  A saphead.
• MAXILLAR; MAXILLARY
  Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n.
• PTERYGOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.
• CALAVERAS SKULL
  A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the
• PREMAXILLARY
  Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillæ; intermaxillary. -- n.
• NASOTURBINAL
  Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelæ of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal. -- n.
• THICKSKULL
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.
• INTERMAXILLARY
  An intermaxilla. (more info) Of or pertaining to the intermaxillæ. -- n.