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Upper Jaw

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Noun

1. maxilla, maxillary, upper jaw, upper jawbone

the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Upper Jaw

see synonyms of upper jaw
noun
the maxilla or upper part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the upper jaw is fused to the cranium and the lower jaw (mandible)
She has only two teeth in her upper jaw.

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