Palatine bone
Bone of the facial skeleton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about palatine bones of the hard palate. For other uses, see Palatine (disambiguation).
In anatomy, the palatine bones (/ˈpælətaɪn/;[1][2] 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.
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Latin | os palatinum |
TA98 | A02.1.13.001 |
TA2 | 798 |
FMA | 52746 |
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