maxilla

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Hood: of the maxilla is the galena; q.v.: in Tingitidae the elevated portion of the prothorax, often covering the head.

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  1. noun Anatomy Either of a pair of bones of the human skull fusing in the midline and forming the upper jaw.
  2. noun A homologous bone of the skull in other vertebrates.
  3. noun Either of two laterally moving appendages situated behind the mandibles in insects and most other arthropods.

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  1. Latin, jawbone.

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  1. Latin, the jaw-bone, jaw, diminutive of *macsula (later māla, jaw), from √ mac in macerare, soften, macerate, = Greek √, μακ, μαγ, in μάσσ, σ1ειν, knead, μᾶζα a kneaded mass: see mass, magma, etc.
 

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/mækˈsɪlə/
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