maxilla

Example Sentences

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The practice of mewing involves keeping the tongue on the roof of the mouth, the maxilla.

From The Guardian

Using high resolution micro-CT scanning, Dr. Weber created a 3D replica of the upper left maxilla that allowed him to investigate its surface features and, virtually, to remove enamel from the teeth.

From New York Times

Qilinyu had three bones, the dentary, maxilla and premaxilla, that characterize the modern vertebrate jaw seen in bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, though they are absent in the cartilaginous sharks and rays.

From Reuters

She analyzed its maxilla, the bone in the skull that holds the upper cheek teeth, and found that it belonged to the hedgehog and moon rat family, Erinaceidae.

From New York Times

Those four noses, it turns out, are the collected prostheses her mother, Darren Stone Nelson, wore after untreated skin cancer had turned her into a “maxilla facial work of art,” as Ms. Brooke put it.

From New York Times