soft palate

soft palate

English

Noun

soft palate (plural soft palates)

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

   Synonyms: velum, muscular palate

   Coordinate term: hard palate

   • 1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles:

     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.

Translations

tissue

Arabic: حَنَك رَخُو‎ m (ḥanak raḵū) Armenian: կատիկ (hy) (katik), փափուկ քիմք (hy) (pʿapʿuk kʿimkʿ) Catalan: vel del paladar m, paladar tou m Chinese: Mandarin: 軟齶／软腭 (zh) (ruǎn'è) Crimean Tatar: yımşaq tañlay Czech: měkké patro (cs) n Finnish: kitapurje (fi), pehmeä kitalaki French: voile du palais (fr) m, palais mou (fr) m Galician: padal brando m German: Gaumensegel (de) n, weicher Gaumen (de) m, Velum (de) n Irish: coguas m Italian: palato molle m, velo palatino m, velopendulo m Japanese: 軟口蓋 (なんこうがい, nankōgai) Korean: 연구개 (yeon'gugae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nermika esmanê dev f Lithuanian: minkštasis gomurys m Polish: podniebienie miękkie n Portuguese: palato mole (pt) m Romanian: palat moale (ro) n, vălul palatin Russian: мя́гкое нёбо n (mjáxkoje njóbo), за́днее нёбо n (zádneje njóbo) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: měke njebjo n, welum m Spanish: velo del paladar m Swedish: gomsegel (sv) n, mjuk gom c, velum (jargon) Tagalog: malambot na ngalangala Turkish: yumuşak damak (tr) Turkmen: ýumşak kentlewük Volapük: müdapalat Welsh: taflod feddal f, cefn y daflod m

Further reading

• soft palate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia