Usually means: Upper jawbone in vertebrates, facial.
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  1. maxilla: Merriam-Webster
  2. maxilla: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maxilla: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maxilla: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maxilla: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maxilla, maxilla: Wordnik
  7. Maxilla (16 teeth), Maxilla, Maxilla, Maxilla, Maxilla, Maxilla, Maxilla: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. maxilla: Wiktionary
  9. maxilla: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maxilla: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maxilla: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. maxilla: Dictionary.com
  13. maxilla: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Maxilla (arthropod), Maxilla (arthropod mouthpart), Maxilla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Maxilla: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. maxilla: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. maxilla: Rhymezone
  18. Maxilla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. maxilla: FreeDictionary.org
  20. maxilla: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. maxilla: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Maxilla: Glossary of Health Care Terms

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  1. maxilla: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. maxilla: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Maxilla: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Maxilla: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Maxilla: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. maxilla: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  11. -maxilla, maxilla: Medical dictionary
  12. Maxilla: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Maxilla: HYPP Zoology
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See maxillae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (maxilla)

noun:  (anatomy, zootomy) Synonym of jaw.
noun:  An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused.
noun:  (anatomy) Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.
noun:  (zootomy) One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.

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