Word Meanings - MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.

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• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR
  Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• MAXILLA
  One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. Note: There are usually two pairs in Crustacea and one pair in insects. In certain insects they are not used as jaws, but may form suctorial organs. See Illust. under Lepidoptera, and Diptera. (more
• MANDIBULAR
  Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. -- n.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NERVED
  Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
• MAXILLAR; MAXILLARY
  Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n.
• NERVE-SHAKEN
  Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
• NERVE
  One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each
• MANDIBLE
  The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
• MAXILLO-PALATINE
  Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.
• MAXILLOTURBINAL
  Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.
• PREMAXILLA
  A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
• INTERMAXILLA
  See PREMAXILLA
• SEPTOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.
• UNNERVE
  To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.
• ENERVE
  To weaken; to enervate. Milton.
• QUINTUPLE-NERVED; QUINTUPLE-RIBBED
  The same as Quinquenerved.
• SUPRAMAXILLARY
  Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
• PRAEMAXILLA
  See PREMAXILLA
• RECTINERVED
  Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
• TRINERVE; TRINERVED
  See TRINERVATE
• SUPERMAXILLARY
  Supermaxillary.
• RETINERVED
  Having reticulated veins.