"maxillary nerve" meaning in English

See maxillary nerve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: maxillary nerves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} maxillary nerve (plural maxillary nerves)
  1. (neuroanatomy) The one of the three major branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin areas of the middle part of the face, the upper jaw and its teeth, and the mucous membranes of the palate, nasal cavities, and nasopharynx. Categories (topical): Neuroanatomy

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maxillary nerves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "maxillary nerve (plural maxillary nerves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Neuroanatomy",
          "orig": "en:Neuroanatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Anatomy",
            "Neurology",
            "Neuroscience",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "All topics",
            "Health",
            "Fundamental",
            "Body"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The one of the three major branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin areas of the middle part of the face, the upper jaw and its teeth, and the mucous membranes of the palate, nasal cavities, and nasopharynx."
      ],
      "id": "en-maxillary_nerve-en-noun-PXNG9Dfa",
      "links": [
        [
          "neuroanatomy",
          "neuroanatomy"
        ],
        [
          "branch",
          "branch"
        ],
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "trigeminal nerve",
          "trigeminal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "sensory",
          "sensory"
        ],
        [
          "fiber",
          "fiber"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ],
        [
          "upper jaw",
          "upper jaw"
        ],
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ],
        [
          "mucous membrane",
          "mucous membrane"
        ],
        [
          "palate",
          "palate"
        ],
        [
          "nasal cavities",
          "nasal cavity"
        ],
        [
          "nasopharynx",
          "nasopharynx"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neuroanatomy) The one of the three major branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin areas of the middle part of the face, the upper jaw and its teeth, and the mucous membranes of the palate, nasal cavities, and nasopharynx."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "neuroanatomy",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maxillary nerve"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maxillary nerves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "maxillary nerve (plural maxillary nerves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Neuroanatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The one of the three major branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin areas of the middle part of the face, the upper jaw and its teeth, and the mucous membranes of the palate, nasal cavities, and nasopharynx."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neuroanatomy",
          "neuroanatomy"
        ],
        [
          "branch",
          "branch"
        ],
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "trigeminal nerve",
          "trigeminal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "sensory",
          "sensory"
        ],
        [
          "fiber",
          "fiber"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ],
        [
          "upper jaw",
          "upper jaw"
        ],
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ],
        [
          "mucous membrane",
          "mucous membrane"
        ],
        [
          "palate",
          "palate"
        ],
        [
          "nasal cavities",
          "nasal cavity"
        ],
        [
          "nasopharynx",
          "nasopharynx"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neuroanatomy) The one of the three major branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin areas of the middle part of the face, the upper jaw and its teeth, and the mucous membranes of the palate, nasal cavities, and nasopharynx."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "neuroanatomy",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maxillary nerve"
}

Download raw JSONL data for maxillary nerve meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.