One portion of maxilla seems to represent a fourth individual, being probably too small for either of the skulls to which the occiputs belong.
Roth assigns it, apparently quite rightly, to the same species as a maxilla from the Pampean formation of the Province of Buenos Aires, for which he proposes the name of Onohippidium saldiasi.
To Q, B, from the fissure of the maxilla to the border of the lips (G.
In the pig, it is formed of two superimposed fasciculi, which arise from the spine of the maxilla and the impressions in front of it.
Fibrous odontomas have been mistaken for sarcoma, and portions of the maxilla removed unnecessarily.
Less frequently the maxilla becomes affected, and the disease may spread to the base of the skull and brain.
The maxillais produced in front of, but not over, the orbital process of the frontal.
Hinder end of the maxilla expanded and covering the greater part of the orbital plate of the frontal bone.
The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxillain many reptiles and amphibians.
A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans.
The maxilla would, according to Claus, appear to be absent.
The respiratory plate of the second maxilla attains its full development and that on the first maxilla disappears[189].
Maxilla of Lithotrya dorsalis, exhibiting the horny, rigid apodeme (a) buried in muscles, together with the two other principal bundles of muscles.
Each maxilla bears a slender feeler or palpus composed of five segments.
Its alveoli in one maxilla are closed and those in the oppositemaxilla are more open than is normal.
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.
The bull-dog, for example, displays this, but in this instance the deformity is really superior brachygnathism, the superior maxilla being arrested in development.
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.
Exaggerated prominence of the maxillaries is called prognathism; that of the superior maxilla is seen in the North American Indians.
Langenbeck reports the case of a young man who had the inferior maxilla so atrophied that in infancy it was impossible for him to take milk from the breast.
From the coronoid process of the inferiormaxilla there was removed a fragment measuring about 3/4 inch in length.
Complete absence of the inferior maxilla is much rarer in man than in animals.
Maxilla of the second pair in the same species, magnified 180 diam.
From the anterior border of the nasal to the maxilla at the lateral end of the hamulus of the lacrimal.
A yellowish-cinnamon colored animal, with body of medium size, zygomatic plate of maxilladeep and mastoid process small.
Now these three lobes may be easily distinguished in the maxilla of Lepisma.
The accompanying figure (152) of the maxilla of a beetle may serve as an example of the maxilla of the Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Neuroptera.
Figure 213, B, shows the minute blade-like maxilla of the magnificent Luna moth, an approximation to the originally blade-like form in beetles and Neuroptera.
Defn: A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
Defn: A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans.
Defn: Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.
Defn: The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
When the angle or the ascending ramus of the mandible or the facial portion of the maxilla is involved, it is not possible to avoid making an external opening.
An alveolar abscess deeply seated in the maxilla may open into the maxillary antrum and set up suppuration in that cavity.
When the alveolar portion is comminuted, the fragments may be kept in position by fixing the mandible against the maxilla by means of a four-tailed bandage (Fig.
In the maxilla no new case is formed, and deformity results from sinking in of the cheek, unless this is prevented by wearing a plate made by the dentist.
An important point to determine is whether the growth arises within the maxilla or has spread to it from adjacent parts, such as the base of the skull, the nose, or the palate.
In some cases the maxilla is driven in as a whole, and in others the fracture radiates to the base of the skull and cerebral symptoms develop.
This bone may retain its normal position in line with the alveolar processes of the maxilla (Fig.
Probably the best line to follow is to embed several tubes of radium in different parts of the tumour for several days, and when the resulting shrinkage of the growth appears to have attained its limits, the maxilla should be excised.
Fractures of the maxilla are nearly always due to direct violence, such as a blow on the face, a stab, or a gun-shot wound.
It is occasionally met with on the orbital margin of the maxilla and in the region of the zygomatic (malar) bone.
Within a few weeks a swelling forms--in the mandible near the angle as a rule, and in the maxilla in some part of the cheek.
When osseous ankylosis occurs in childhood, it leads to arrest of development of the mandible, which is small and markedly receding, so that the teeth do not oppose those of the maxilla (Fig.
When the frontal (nasal) portion of the maxilla is broken, the lachrymal sac and nasal duct may be damaged and the flow of the tears obstructed.
Prognathism properly so-called: prominence of the upper maxilla as a whole.
There is a bony operculum attached to the hyomandibular, and membrane bones representing respectively the maxilla and dentary are attached to the jaws.
There is no operculum and no representative of the maxillaor premaxillae.
In the under view of the skull (Figure 2) it will be seen that the maxilla sends in a plate to form the front part of the hard palate.
Figure 1), which is hidden by the maxilla in the side view of the skull.
The maxilla anteriorly and the palatine posteriorly send down palatine plates that grow in to form the bony palate, cutting off a nasal passage (n.
Remarks: Fragments of long bones, mandible, andmaxilla present.
Position of mandible and maxilla among the leg bones suggests either a former disturbance of a primary inhumation or a secondary burial.
Each outer maxilla is furnished with a pair of muscles, apparently a flexor and extensor; there is also a little muscle between the two maxillae, I presume for the purpose of bringing them together.
St. Ange, in his comparison of the mouth of Lepas with that of Phyllosoma, compares the mandible of the latter with the palpus of Lepas; the first maxilla of Phyllosoma with the mandible of Lepas; and so on with the other gnathites.
Stroemia; the lower part of the edge of the maxilla is very prominent.
Necrosis of the inferior maxilla entails continuance of the disagreeable local symptoms until the discharge in fragments or in mass of the dead portions of bone.
In the superior maxilla the last-described anomaly is also observed.
That the bone itself does sometimes play a part in the hyperostosis which is in progress is shown by an increase of an inch in the length of the right ramus of the maxilla over that of the left in Adams's first plate.
The lower maxilla is flat anteriorly, it loses its rounded outline, is shorter in longitudinal direction, while the rami are thick and clumsy; the whole bone is shorter than normal, and sometimes asymmetric.
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