The hard palate is a thin horizontal bony plate made up of two bones of the facial skeleton, located in the roof of the mouth. The bones are the palatine...

not truly separated. The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior, bony hard palate and the posterior, fleshy soft palate (or velum). The maxillary...

The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the hard palate. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front...

palate is a condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined. The soft palate is...

back and opens their mouth for the hard-palate assessment. Visual inspection with a penlight shows a healthy palate as whitish in color, with a firm texture...

the uvula in the throat. Together with the maxilla, they comprise the hard palate. The palatine bones are situated at the back of the nasal cavity between...

of the upper lip, the maxillary alveolus (dental arch), and the hard or soft palate, in various combinations. The anatomic combinations include: cleft...

"nasopalatine foramen") is the opening of the incisive canals on the hard palate immediately behind the incisor teeth. It gives passage to blood vessels...

US also /-lɪ-/) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate. Consonants pronounced...

keratinized stratified squamous epithelium, found on the dorsum of the tongue, hard palate, and attached gingiva. Specialized mucosa, specifically in the regions...

the following locations in humans: Wrinkles of the labia and scrotum Hard palate immediately behind the upper anterior teeth Inside the urinary bladder...

The hard-palate catfish (Brustiarius solidus), also known as the hard-plate catfish, is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described...

many vertebrates. In human embryology, it refers to that portion of the hard palate that is formed by the growth of the two palatine shelves medially and...

region and the hard palate; prevelar (at the back of the hard palate, also post-palatal or even medio-palatal for the middle of the hard palate); or postvelar...

through the incisive canal and then the incisive fossa to enter the hard palate. It provides sensory innervation to the posteroinferior part of the nasal...

palatal tori), is a bony protrusion on the palate. Palatal tori are usually present on the midline of the hard palate. Most palatal tori are less than 2 cm...

against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). Consonants with the tip of the tongue curled back against the palate are called retroflex...

is known as the roof of the mouth, or the hard palate. The formation and development of the secondary palate occurs through signalling molecules SHH, BMP-2...

affricate [d͡ʒ] because it is difficult to get the tongue to touch just the hard palate without also touching the back part of the alveolar ridge. It is also...

a branch of the third part of the maxillary artery supplying the hard and soft palate. It descends through the greater palatine canal with the greater...

and hard palate, particularly during articulation and speech. A custom-made artificial palate is moulded to fit against a speaker's hard palate. The...

curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants—especially in...

fusion of two maxillary bones. In humans, the upper jaw includes the hard palate in the front of the mouth. The two maxillary bones are fused at the intermaxillary...

surfaces in the mouth – i.e. anywhere except the attached gingiva, the hard palate and the dorsum of the tongue – although the more severe forms, which...

at the back by the isthmus of the fauces. Its roof is formed by the hard palate. The floor is formed by the mylohyoid muscles and is occupied mainly...

uvula visible. Class IV: Only hard palate visible. Original Mallampati Scoring: Class 1: Faucial pillars, soft palate and uvula could be visualized....

The soft palate only blocks the nasal cavity while swallowing. At rest the soft palate should only stretch caudally from the hard palate to the tip...

retraction of the tongue. It may cause non-fusion of the hard palate, causing cleft palate. It is one of the features of Pierre Robin sequence and Down...

tongue, either on roof of the mouth between the upper teeth and the hard palate or on the bottom of the mouth behind the lower teeth. The term alveolar...

of the maxillary artery) and contributes to the blood supply of the hard palate and nasal septum. The descending palatine artery branches off of the...