Word Meanings - PTERYGOMAXILLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.

Related words: (words related to PTERYGOMAXILLARY)

• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• INNERLY
  More within. Baret.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• PLATER
  One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater. 2. A machine for calendering paper.
• INNERVE
  To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate. (more info) Etym:
• INNER
  1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton. 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house , the first and second divisions of
• INNERMOST
  Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.
• PTERYGOID
  A pterygoid bone. Pterygoid bone , a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine
• PLATEL
  A small dish.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• EPIPTERYGOID
  Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• PALATOPTERYGOID
  Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.