different between maxillary vs palpator

English

Alternative forms

• maxillar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mak?s?l.?.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæk.s??l??.i/
• Rhymes: -?l??i, -æks?l???i

Adjective

maxillary (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or relating to the jaw or jawbone.
2. (zootomy) Of or pertaining to the maxillae of an arthropod.

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

maxillary (plural maxillaries)

1. (anatomy) Alternative form of maxilla.
2. (anatomy) A tooth growing from the upper jawbone.

References

• “maxillary”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “maxilla”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

English

Etymology

Latin, meaning "stroker".

Noun

palpator (plural palpators)

1. One who palpates.
2. A device for palpating.
3. (zoology, dated) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

Latin

Etymology

From palp? (“touch softly, stroke; flatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pal?pa?.tor/, [pä???pä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal?pa.tor/, [p?l?p??t??r]

Noun

palp?tor m (genitive palp?t?ris); third declension

1. stroker
2. (figuratively) cajoler, flatterer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (flatterer): palp?

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: palpator

References

• palpator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palpator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette