Crossword-Solution: MAXILLA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maxilla | n. | The bone of either the upper or the under jaw. |
| Maxilla | n. | The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible. |
| Maxilla | n. | One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “MAXILLA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BONES including the cheekbones, upper jaw, and lower jawbone (mandible) | 1 answer |
| Bone bearing the upper teeth. | 1 answer |
| Bone of the upper jaw | 1 answer |
| Mandible's counterpart | 1 answer |
| The bone of the upper jaw | 1 answer |
| UPPER jaw bone | 1 answer |
| Upper jaw | 1 answer |
| face bone | 2 answers |
| Jawbone | 3 answers |
| Jaw bone | 3 answers |
| FACIAL bone | 8 answers |
| bone face | 12 answers |
| HEAD bone | 12 answers |
| INSECT, part of | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAXILLA (5)
Bartholomew's Hospital in London there is a congenital tumor which was removed from the anterior mediastinum of a woman of twenty one, and contained portions of skin, fat, sebaceous material, and two pieces of bone similar to the superior maxilla, and in which several teeth were found.
Ibbetson saw a child with five incisors in the inferior maxillary bone, and Fanton-Touvet describes a young lady who possessed five large incisors of the first dentition in the superior maxilla.
The inferior maxilla and the frontal bone were both perfect; the ears were well developed and the tongue strong and active; the nostrils were imperforate and there was no roof to the mouth nor floor to the nares.
Gurlt has named subjects presenting the total or partial absence of the inferior maxilla, agnathes or hemiagnathes.
Simple atrophy of the inferior maxilla has been seen in man as well as in the lower animals, but is much less frequent than atrophy of the superior maxilla.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1954–2015).