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Premaxillary   Listen
adjective
Premaxillary  adj.  (Anat.) Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillae; intermaxillary.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Premaxillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... great oceanic Mammalia—the whales—show striking resemblances to those prodigious, extinct, marine reptiles, the Ichthyosauria, and this not only in structures readily referable to similarity of habit, but in such matters as greatly elongated premaxillary bones, together with the concealment of certain bones of the skull by other cranial bones. ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... unusually curved upwards to come into contact with the premaxillaries. The nasal bones are about one-third the ordinary length, but retain almost their normal breadth. The triangular vacuity is left between them, the frontal and lachrymal, which latter bone articulates with the premaxillary, and thus excludes the maxillary from any junction with the nasal." So that even the connexion of some of the bones is changed. Other differences might be added: thus the plane of the condyles is somewhat modified, and the terminal edge of the premaxillaries ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin



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