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Definition of: maxilla

(mak·silə) noun plural ·lae (-ē)
1. Anat. The upper jaw bone in vertebrates.
2. Zool. One of the pair or pairs of jaws behind the mandibles of an arthropod. [<L, dim. of mala jaw]

Most often used phrases:

maxilla upper
left maxilla
jaw maxilla
maxilla fragment
upper maxilla
posterior maxilla
maxilla blue
partial maxilla
mandible maxilla
anterior maxilla
maxilla corpus
maxilla mandible
maxilla bone
lower maxilla
maxilla main

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