MAXILLA (maxillae)

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Irregular inflected form: maxillae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does maxilla mean? 

• MAXILLA (noun)
  The noun MAXILLA has 1 sense:

1. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium

  Familiarity information: MAXILLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAXILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

maxilla; maxillary; upper jaw; upper jawbone

Hypernyms ("maxilla" is a kind of...):

jaw (the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth)

Meronyms (parts of "maxilla"):

hard palate (the bony part of the roof of the mouth)

intermaxillary suture; sutura intermaxillaris (the suture between the two maxillae of the upper jawbone)

 Context examples 

A rare, benign, intraosseous neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues in the mandible and maxilla.

(Odontogenic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the mandible and maxilla.

(Odontoameloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The upper part is the maxilla.

(Jaw Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

A benign intraosseous neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues in the mandible and maxilla, characterized by the presence of islands of odontogenic epithelium.

(Odontogenic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An intraosseous odontogenic neoplasm with good prognosis, arising from the mandible and less frequently from the maxilla.

(Odontogenic Myxofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to remove part of the maxilla.

(Partial Maxillectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

An area of necrotic bone in the mandible or maxilla.

(Osteonecrosis of Jaw, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by prominence of the lower part of the face due to bilateral replacement of the mandible or maxilla bones by excessive fibrous tissue.

(Cherubism, NCI Thesaurus)

Having teeth in neither the mandible nor the maxilla.

(Edentulous, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the mandible and less often in the maxilla.

(Ameloblastic Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)