maxillary's Usage Examples:

Of the five teeth between the incisors and molars the most anterior, or the one usually situated close behind the premaxillary suture, very generally assumes a lengthened and pointed form, and constitutes the " canine " of the Carnivora, the tusk of the boar, 'c.

- Tailed batrachians, with the frontals distinct from the parietals and the palatines from the maxillary.

The segmentation of the prosoma and the form of the appendages bear a homoplastic similarity to the head, pro-, meso-, and meta-thorax of a Hexapod with mandibles, maxillary palps and three pairs of walking legs; while the opistho io i e d c b o a S' S" 2 I VT V S IV III II I Opisthosoma Prosoma FIG.

- The anterior maxillary teeth are deeply grooved, or so folded as to appear hollow or perforated.

The commonest seat is the groin, and next to that the axilla; the cervical, submaxillary and femoral glands are less frequently affected.

- Without an external pit between eye and nose, and the maxillary bone is not hollowed out above.

In the Decapoda, where the antennal gland alone is well-developed in the adult, the maxillary gland sometimes precedes it in the larva.

The appendages of the two maxillary segments arise as treble instead of single projections, thus differing from other appendages.

Synonyms:

hard palate, maxilla, sutura intermaxillaris, upper jaw, jaw, upper jawbone, intermaxillary suture,

Antonyms:

praise,