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Vinony's link graph records 507 inbound references to palatine bone, and connects out to maxilla, zygomatic bone and skull.
It sits within the topics Bones of the head and neck, Irregular bones and Otorhinolaryngology.
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Key facts
- Latin
- os palatinum
- Ta98
- A02.1.13.001
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Wikidata facts
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- Palatine bone.png
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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.