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Definition of Palatine bones

Palatine bones
Palatine Pal"a*tine, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

Meaning of Palatine bones from wikipedia

- In anatomy, the palatine bones (/ˈpælətaɪn/) are two irregular bones of the facial skeleton in many animal species, located above the uvula in the throat...
- anterior three quarters of the hard palate, the horizontal plate of the palatine bone making up the rest. It is perforated by numerous foramina for the p****age...
- bones at the time of birth, but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are...
- facial bones of the skull. It is located in the midsagittal line, and articulates with the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the left and right palatine bones, and...
- fourteen bones in the face: Inferior turbinal (2) Lacrimal bones (2) Mandible Maxilla (2) Nasal bones (2) Palatine bones (2) Vomer Zygomatic bones (2) Elements...
- pterygopalatine fossa. It goes through the maxilla and palatine bones to reach the palate, ending at the greater palatine foramen. From this canal, accessory canals...
- foramen Each maxilla articulates with nine bones: frontal, ethmoid, nasal, zygomatic, lacrimal, and palatine bones, the vomer, the inferior nasal concha,...
- bone that projects from the maxilla and the palatine bones, and is the length of the septum. This strip of bone is called the maxillary crest; it articulates...
- of palatine bone is a thin, superomedially directed plate of bone. It is smaller and more inferior compared to the orbital process of palatine bone. The...
- greater palatine foramen is, along with the lesser palatine foramen, one of two foramina (holes) in each of the left and right palatine bones which form...