maxillary

What it means

1. not comparableanatomyOf or relating to the jaw or jawbone.
2. not comparablebiologyOf or pertaining to the maxillae of an arthropod.

In a sentence

Neoplastic localisations in the maxillaries can be distinguished between primitive tumour lesions with osteomedullary origin (osteoma, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, myeloma, etc.) and secondary neoplasms of the maxillaries such as the hematogenous metastasis or the tumours which affect the maxillaries for their adjacency, for example, the lesions in the oral cavity and the salivary glands.

2014, Ignazio Pandolfo, Silvio Mazziotti, Orthopantomography, page 148

Where it comes from

1. Latinmāxillāris“of or belonging to the jaw”
2. Englishmaxillary

Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.