supramaxillary love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the upper jaw, in part or as a whole; related to or connected with the superior maxillary bone.
  • One of several small motor branches of the facial nerve, distributed to muscles of the superior maxillary region.
  • noun The superior maxillary, or upper jaw-bone, forming a part, in man nearly the whole, of the bony framework of the upper jaw, and representing more or less of the expanse of the cheek: correlated with inframaxillary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Situated over the lower jaw.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Situated over the lower jaw.
  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

Etymologies

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supra- +‎ maxillary

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