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MAXILLA
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Irregular inflected form: maxillae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
Synonyms:
maxilla; maxillary; upper jaw; upper jawbone
Classified under:
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, aggressive odontogenic malignant tumor that arises usually from the mandible and less frequently from the maxilla.
(Ameloblastic Carcinoma-Primary Type, NCI Thesaurus)
The thickened bony structures in the mandible and maxilla that contain the sockets of the teeth.
(Alveolar Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)
It most often grows intraosseously in the mandible and less frequently in the maxilla.
(Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A thin, broad, quadrilateral muscle that lies within the interval between the jaw (maxilla and mandible) on the side of the face.
(Buccinator, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma usually arising from the maxilla and less often the mandible.
(Ghost Cell Odontogenic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An irregularly shaped bone positioned at the back part of the nasal cavity between the maxilla and the pterygoid process of the sphenoid.
(Palatine Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
The vast majority of cases are intraosseous and most often grow in the maxilla.
(Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
An autosomal dominant inherited syndrome characterized by the development of parathyroid adenoma or carcinoma, ossifying fibroma of the mandible and maxilla, renal neoplasms, and renal cysts.
(Hyperparathyroidism-Jaw Tumor Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The most common odontogenic tumor, arising from the epithelial component of the embryonic tooth and usually affecting the molar-ramus region of the mandible or maxilla.
(Ameloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A congenital gingival tumor that occurs along the alveolar ridge of the maxilla.
(Congenital Epulis, NCI Thesaurus)
