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Numerous tiny vascular foramina perforate the surface of the maxilla, especially anteriorly and dorsally.
These processes of the maxilla sometimes project backward in the median plane, separating the horizontal plates from each other.
A ventral projection of the jugal extends over the lateral surface of the maxilla.
The depression is the scar marking the overlap of the jugal process of the zygomatic arch on to the maxilla, as in therian mammals generally.
The zygomatic arch looks right, but the anterior portion is mostly maxilla, rather than jugal.
They occur almost exclusively along the alveolar ridge of the maxilla in white female newborns.
Two major bones of the upper jaw, the maxilla, and the premaxilla, were previously firmly attached to the skull and had teeth.
The right maxilla, measuring 4.5 x 4.5 x 5 cm, was received for pathologic evaluation.
In the dried skin, the maxilla is blackish except for the tip, which is paler.
Posteriorly, the palatine continues this shelf and restricts the maxilla to a more lateral position.
The maxilla and lacrimal meet on the dorsal rim of this fenestra in a tight, complex suture.
Any possible kinesis would have been limited to the premaxilla and maxilla.
The shape of its edge indicates that the maxilla lacked the posterodorsally reflected lappet present in most other mosasaurs.
The maxilla and frontal are expanded laterally, hiding the small zygomatic arch from dorsal view.
The infraorbital canal may be shifted laterally as far as the suture between the maxilla and zygomatic bones.
The maxilla may be directly joined to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone by a dorsal extension of the zygomatic process of the maxilla.
The left maxilla preserves 13 tooth sockets, which are slightly larger than the premaxillary tooth sockets.
The 80 x 50mm volume can be used for single views of the jaw mandible or maxilla.
Fix the bite wax model and mount the maxilla and mandible casts on the articulator.
Behind the mandibles, Mandibulata bear one, or more typically, two pairs of maxillae, frequently with a long palp, as in the second maxilla of Macrocyclops.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It arises from the temporal fossa, and is inserted into the coronoid process of the inferior maxilla.
The outer row is formed of the prmaxilla, maxilla, jugal, and very often quadratojugal.
The plane of the narial rim is oblique to the lateral surface of the maxilla.
Beneath the naris the maxilla extends as a broad tapering shelf, the ventral surface of which articulates with the premaxilla.
At the posteroventral corner of the naris a foramen opens onto the lateral surface of the maxilla.
Now these three lobes may be easily distinguished in the maxilla of Lepisma.
The small lacrimal bone anterior to the plate articulates with the maxilla and the premaxilla.
Both the premaxilla and the maxilla develop processes which form a sheath for the vomer.
Its alveoli in one maxilla are closed and those in the opposite maxilla are more open than is normal.
There is no operculum and no representative of the maxilla or premaxillae.
It is wholly confined to the maxilla, not extending on to the nasals.
Behind this the edge of the maxilla is only slightly convex.
There are not more than two pairs of limbs behind the maxilla.
The premaxilla is rudimentary and loosely attached to the maxilla.
Osseous lesions in the maxilla can represent ossifying fibroma, fibrous dysplasia, amelogenesis imperfecta, or osteogenesis imperfecta.
Each maxilla bears a slender feeler or palpus composed of five segments.
It has been defined as a necrosis or death of the bone of the mandible or maxilla that may occur following radiation therapy for cancer in the oral and perioral region.
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