maxilla

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The neighborhood has lost the Maxilla and Mandible store, an inimitable, three-decade-old fixture that specialized in fossils and skulls, and Ottomanelli Brothers butcher shop, which offered meats not found in supermarkets.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2012

Disease of Left Maxilla, which displaced the eyeball and caused double vision.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Maxilla inferior porifera, ore clauso ascendens, hinc, ore hiante, ultra maxillam speriorem modice protractam extensa.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

Maxilla of Harpalus caliginosus, with all sclerites marked.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.