The palate is essentially the roof of the mouth. The front portion of the palate is constructed of bone (specifically two bones called the maxilla and the palatine) covered with a mucous membrane. Together these form the hard palate. The hard palate...

Roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities. The front two-thirds, the hard palate, is a plate of bone covered by mucous membrane. It gives the tongue a surface against which to make speech sounds and shape food during chewing and keeps...

n. 1. (also hard palate) The hard bony structure at the top of the roof of the mouth, just behind the alveolar ridge. 2. [now rare] A cover term for the palate (sense 1) and the velum taken together. Adj. palatal; CF...

The concave region of bony cartilage that covers the oral cavity and is connected behind the...

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The palate (IPA: /ËpælÉt/ or /Ëpælɪt/) is the roof of the mouth in humans and vertebrate animals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior bony hard palate, and the posterior fleshy...