(n.) The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiographic changes in the jawbones including alterations of the laminae durae were observed in twenty-three children.
(2) You can tell these ones are evil, because they are scowling, have weirder facial piercings, and wear epaulettes made of human jawbones.
(3) A radiographic survey of the jawbone adjacent to the teeth revealed a high incidence of bone pathosis in 889 randomly chosen patients.
(4) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(5) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
(6) A total of 114 tumours of the jawbones was confirmed in a survey of 204,583 surgical specimens in Chinese in the University Department of Pathology, Hong Kong from 1963-1982.
(7) Bone-appositioning inflammatory processes (condensing osteitis), on the other hand, appeared mostly in the mandible, very often involving the first molar, thus indicating the differing biologic behavior of the two jawbones.
(8) In Maxillo-facial surgery: for orbital floor, maxillary sinus and jawbone reconstruction.
(9) Since then, President Petro Poroshenko’s jawboning has brought the exchange rate back close to the level on which Ukraine’s 2015 budget was based.
(10) Neurilemmomas arising within the jawbones are rare.
(11) Jawbone, considered Fitbit’s long term rival, has had setbacks in the last year, with product delays hurting sales at a time when Fitbit sold 3.9m trackers in the first quarter of this year.
(12) It could walk on four legs on land and in water, and heard by picking up vibrations through its jawbone, just as modern whales do.
(13) The eighth case of a benign osteoblastoma of the jawbones is presented.
(14) Misfit between a jawbone-anchored bridge and the abutments in the patient's jaw may result in, for example, fixture fracture.
(15) According to his description of the martyrdom of the Saint, her teeth were extracted and her jawbones broken.
(16) With products such as the FitBit One, Jawbone Up and Nike+ FuelBand boasting impressive sales numbers (the FuelBand reportedly sold out within four hours of its launch), it seems that self-tracking is finding traction and on the way to becoming an ubiquitous feature of daily life.
(17) Periodontal disease is the collective term given to a variety of inflammatory conditions in the tissue that supports and secures the teeth to the jawbone.
(18) Thirty-four children with chronic renal failure were examined to evaluate the character and frequency of radiographic changes in the jawbones as related to radiographic abnormalities in other skeletal regions and laboratory data.
(19) At the lower part of the lingual surface of the teeth in the anterior row and the labial surface of the teeth in the posterior row the bundles of fibrils start at the dentine and some fibrils run through connective tissue, while others terminate in projections of the jawbones.
(20) Faces having the same anteroposterior value for the jawbones can have very different ANB angles (Figs.
Maxillary
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
(n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
(n.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(2) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(3) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(4) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
(5) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(6) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(7) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(8) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(9) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(10) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(11) Epistaxis was common in tumors of the ethmoid sinus and nasal fossae, while pain was related to lesions of the maxillary sinus.
(12) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(13) In order to achieve palatal closure with the least possible impediment to maxillary growth, the two-stage repair seems to be the best procedure in our hands.
(14) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(15) Secretion rate and electrolyte concentrations (Na+, K+ and Cl-) in the lacrimal fluid samples were determined before and after injections of small doses of prostaglandins (PGE1, PGE2, PGF1 alpha, PGF2 alpha, 15 epi-PGF2 alpha, PGF2 beta, PGA1 & PGA2) into the external maxillary artery.
(16) A case of extramedullary maxillary sinus plasmocytoma a 39-year-old man is described.
(17) A radiopaque impression material can be used so that the radiographic outline of the maxillary sinus on standard radiographic projections can be shown.
(18) The authors describe a rare case of mucocele of maxillary sinus and, on the basis of the histological and namely of the ultrastructural findings, they maintain that the mucocele has in all probability a multiple pathogenesis being dependent not only on the inflammatory processes, but also on other local predisposing factors and namely the active participation of the mucosa in the formation of the cavity of mucocele.
(19) The cause is considered being an unsufficient antibiotical treatment of maxillary sinusitis.
(20) Although X-ray studies in many of the patients revealed mucosal swelling four weeks after surgery, the maxillary sinuses were well aerated 8 weeks after operation.