Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the upper jaw, in part or as a whole; related to or connected with the superior maxillary bone.
- One of several small motor branches of the facial nerve, distributed to muscles of the superior maxillary region.
- noun The superior maxillary, or upper jaw-bone, forming a part, in man nearly the whole, of the bony framework of the upper jaw, and representing more or less of the expanse of the cheek: correlated with inframaxillary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Situated over the lower jaw.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated over the
lower jaw . - adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
upper jaw.
Etymologies
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supra- + maxillary
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