maxillary

IPA: mæksˈɪɫɝi

Examples of "maxillary" in Sentences

First tooth arrives - a maxillary lateral incisor - though status-conscious parents describe it to relatives as a bicuspid.
"This," he explained, "will distalize the maxillary arch in the right buccal segment and correct the Class 2 malocclusion."
The four remaining branches arise from that portion of the internal maxillary which is contained in the pterygopalatine fossa.
The first of these gill-arches, and the most important for our purpose, which we may call the maxillary (jaw) arch, forms the skeleton of the jaws.
Those composing the face are, the two _nasal_, two _superior maxillary, _ two _lachrymal_, two _malar_ two _palate_, two _inferior turbinated, vomer_, and _inferior maxillary_.
I saw the nice stomalogist/maxillary surgeon this afternoon at the curiously named Hôpital Deux Alices in Uccle, and she anaesthetised my jaw thoroughly and whipped out the errant fragments.
Martin said he and Burnham began to look through published descriptions of the animal and noticed noticed unique grooves in a bone in the upper-jaw called the maxillary, a bone often found in venomous animals.
There is a surgical procedure, preferably performed under anaesthetic, for those who suffer from recurrent bouts of sinusitis in which the maxillary sinus is pierced via the nasal cavity, flushed out with saline and hey presto you wake up being able to breath again.