maxillofacial

1. 1.

   of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla)

   “maxillofacial surgery”

   surgery

Questions about maxillofacial

What does maxillofacial mean?

maxillofacial means "of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla)".

How many syllables are in maxillofacial?

maxillofacial has 6 syllables and divides as max-il-lo-fa-ci-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is maxillofacial a common word?

maxillofacial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.