Soft palate
Flexible part of maxilla / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the hard palate. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone.
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Soft palate | |
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Details | |
Artery | Lesser palatine arteries, ascending palatine artery |
Nerve | Pharyngeal branch of vagus nerve, medial pterygoid nerve, lesser palatine nerves, glossopharyngeal nerve[1] |
Identifiers | |
Latin | palatum molle, velum palatinum |
MeSH | D010160 |
TA98 | A05.1.01.104 A05.2.01.003 |
TA2 | 2780 |
FMA | 55021 |
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