maxillary

(măk'sə-lĕr'ē)
adj.
Of or relating to a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper one.

n., pl., -ies.
A maxillary bone; a jawbone.

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Pertaining to the jaw.

Emanating from or pertaining to the maxilla.

• m. collapse — includes failure of the maxilla to grow, as in achondroplastic dwarfism, or atrophy due to turbinate atrophy, as in atrophic rhinitis. The result is a dishing or depression of the face.
• m. cyst — a cyst that occurs in young horses and causes sufficient distortion of the bone as to obstruct the nasal passage.
• m. myositis — a localized myositis of unknown origin which occurs in young horses. It causes inability to eat or to suck the mare. The muscles of the cheeks are hard.
• m. process — an embryonic fold which develops from the first visceral arch and expands to produce the rostral bones of the upper jaw.
• m. sinusitis — infection in the maxillary sinus, often from an infected tooth. Causes local facial swelling and nasal discharge. See also malar abscess.
• m. swelling — a unilateral swelling which is usually an indication of an osteomyelitis, as in actinomycosis of cattle, tooth-root abscess of dogs or sinusitis in horses. Bilateral swellings are characteristic of osteodystrophia fibrosa in dogs and horses.

(mak'siler'ē)
adj

Pertaining to the superior jaw.

See words rhyming with "maxillary."