maxilla (upper jaw bone)

Structure: - an irregularly shaped, unpaired, pneumatized bone of the skull. Function: - it supports the upper teeth & forms part of the orbit, the hard palate & the nasal cavity Constituents: - it contains the maxillary sinuses.

Related

hard palate maxillary sinus; maxillary antrum

Specific

frontal/nasal process of maxilla incisive bone; intermaxilla/premaxilla; intermaxillary/premaxillary bone incisive/premaxillary suture maxillary orifice/ostium/duct palatine process of maxilla

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

Components

anterior nasal spine fossa for lacrimal sac inferior orbital fissure infraorbital foramen (canal) infraorbital groove