💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Palatine bone"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| palatinenoun | Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor. |
| os palatinumnoun | either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits |
| premaxillanoun | (anatomy) Either of a pair of bones in front of the maxillary bones in the upper vertebrate jaw |
| maxillopalatinenoun | (anatomy) That area of the skull. |
| hard palatenoun | A thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth. |
| palatenoun | (figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors. |
| maxillanoun | An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused. |
| palatine aponeurosisnoun | (anatomy) A thin fibrous lamella attached to the posterior part of the hard palate that supports the soft palate, includes the tendon of the tensor veli palatini, and supports the other muscles of the palate. |
| vomeropalatinenoun | A bone, in the roof of the mouth of some fish and reptiles, formed by the fusion of the vomer and palatine bones |
| dermopalatinenoun | (anatomy) A bone on the palatine that develops from the skin lining. |
| palatine uvulanoun | (anatomy) The uvula in the mouth (as distinguished from uvulae elsewhere in the body). |
| palatine arterynoun | (anatomy) Any of the arteries supplying the hard and soft palates. |
| palatine tonsilnoun | (anatomy) One of the two tonsils that can be seen on the left and right sides at the back of the throat. |
| nasal bonenoun | (anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity. |
| interpalatine | (anatomy) lying between palatines |
| palatogenesisnoun | The formation of the palate (roof of the mouth) |
| parietal bonenoun | (anatomy) Either of two bones that together form the sides and top of the skull. |
| palatopharyngeal archnoun | (anatomy) the more posterior of the two ridges of soft tissue at the back of the mouth on each side that curves downward from the uvula to the side of the pharynx forming a recess for the palatine tonsil as it diverges from the palatoglossal arch and that is composed of part of the palatopharyngeus with its covering of mucous membrane |
| palatopharyngeal | (anatomy) Of, relating to, or involving the palate and the pharynx. |
| frontal processnoun | (anatomy) A long plate that is part of the maxilla and contributes to the formation of the lateral part of the nose and of the nasal cavity. |
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