soft palate
soft palate noun: the soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
Noun
soft palate (plural soft palates)
- The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
- The part which is connected by a thin tendinous end to the tendinous membrane, that is extended above upon the soft palate, coming from the nostrils; and with that membrane seems to be inserted into the middle and posterior edge of the palate bones.1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles
- Synonyms:
- velum, muscular palate
soft palate meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
soft palate in Tamil
- மென்மையான அன்னம், மென்னண்ணம், மெல் அண்ணம், கடையண்ணம், மெல்லண்ணம்
soft palate in Kannada
- ಕಿಳ್ದಾಳಿಗೆ
soft palate in Tagalog
- tissue
- malambot na ngalangala
soft palate in Arabic
- tissue
- حَنَك رَخُو ḥanak raḵū
Synonyms of soft palate
Forms of soft palate
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Questions about soft palate
- What does soft palate mean?
- Soft palate means the soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
- What is soft palate in Tamil?
- Soft palate in Tamil is மென்மையான அன்னம், மென்னண்ணம், மெல் அண்ணம். See Soft palate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is soft palate?
- Soft palate is a noun.
- What is the plural of soft palate?
- The plural of soft palate is soft palates.
Words near soft palate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft palate (page history and authors); soft palate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soft palate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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