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Also known as Palate

facial bone

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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.

Vinony links it to 49 Wikipedia language editions.

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Latin
os palatinum
Ta98
A02.1.13.001

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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.

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