| palate | 1. <anatomy> The roof of the mouth. The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum. 2. Relish; taste; liking; a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. "Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests." (Pope) 3. Mental relish; intellectual taste. 4. <botany> A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon. Origin: L. Palatum: cf. F. Palais, Of. Also palat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| palate hook | An instrument for pulling forward the soft palate in order to facilitate posterior rhinoscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palate myograph | Synonym: palatograph. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palate, cleft | An opening in the roof of the mouth, due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully together from either side of the mouth and fuse during embryonic development. (12 Dec 1998) |
| palate, hard | The bony part of the roof of the mouth. The hard palate is just in front of the soft palate. (12 Dec 1998) |
| palate, soft | The muscular part of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is directly behind the hard palate. It lacks bone and so is soft. (12 Dec 1998) |
| palatial | <anatomy> Palatal; palatine. Origin: Palate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palatic | <anatomy> Palatal; palatine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palatiform | Palate-shaped; resembling the palate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatinase | A maltase in the intestinal mucosa that hydrolyzes palatinose; probably oligo-1,6-glucosidase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatine | 1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count. 2. The Palatine hill in Rome. <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the palate. <anatomy> Palatine bones, a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries. Origin: From Palate. <anatomy> A palatine bone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palatine aponeurosis | The expanded tendons of the tensor veli palatini muscles in the anterior two-thirds of the soft palate to which the other palatine muscles attach. Synonym: aponeurosis palatina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatine bone | An irregularly shaped bone posterior to the maxilla, which enters into the formation of the nasal cavity, the orbit, and the hard palate; it articulates with the maxilla, inferior nasal concha, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones, the vomer and its fellow of the opposite side. Synonym: os palatinum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatine glands | A number of racemose mucous glands in the posterior half of the submucous tissue covering the hard palate. Synonym: glandulae palatinae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatine groove | One of a number of grooves on the lower surface of the palatine process of the maxilla in which the palatine vessels and nerves lie. Synonym: sulcus palatinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Bone, Palatine, Hard Palates, Palates, Hard
Synonyms : Soft Palate, Palates, Soft, Palatinum, Velum
| palatine |
any of various important officials in ancient Rome palatal: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives 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
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| palatine raphe |
the seam at the middle of the hard palate
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| palatine tonsil |
tonsil: either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx
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| palatoglossal |
relating to the palate and tongue
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| palatopharyngoplasty |
surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)
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| palat | suitable for or like a palace |
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| palat | relating to or being a palace |
| palat | a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine |
| palat | 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 |
| palat | (medieval) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands |
| palat | any of various important officials in ancient Rome |
| palat | of or relating to a palace |
| palat | of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives |
| palat | relating to or lying near the palate |
| palat | the most important of the Seven Hills of ancient Rome |
| palat | one of several arteries supplying the face |
| palat | 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 |