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Key facts
- Latin
- os palatinum
- Ta98
- A02.1.13.001
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- face
- Image
- Palatine bone.png
- Connects with
- inferior nasal concha
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C52745
- Commons category
- Palatine bones
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Encyclopedic overview
In anatomy, the palatine bones (/ˈpælətaɪn/; derived from the Latin palatum) are two irregular bones of the facial skeleton in many animal species, located above the uvula in the throat. Together with the maxilla, they comprise the hard palate.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “palatine bone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.