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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The movable fold, consisting of muscular fibers enclosed in a mucous membrane, that is suspended from the rear of the hard palate and closes off the nasal cavity from the oral cavity during swallowing or sucking.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. See the Note under Palate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking

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  1. muscular palate
  1. velum

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  1. flap

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  1. fauces
  2. palate
  3. velum
  4. palatal
  5. velar
  6. guttural
  7. hawk
  1. isthmoplegia
  2. palatogram
  3. palatograph
  4. palatography
  5. nasopharynx
  6. palate-myograph
  7. palatum
  1. salpingostaphylinus
  2. staphyloplasty
  3. camery
  4. snore
  5. uvula
  6. burr
  7. velar consonant
  1. obturator
  2. oropharynx
  3. glossopharyngeal nerve
  4. pharyngeal reflex
  5. velarize
  6. nasal
  7. gag reflex
  1. rhinoscopy
  2. sneezing
  3. snoring
  4. emydinidæ
  5. mellow
  6. operation
  7. palatine
  1. pharyngolaryngeal

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Words tagged ‘soft palate’

  1. articulators
  1. frication

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