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SOFT PALATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("soft palate" is a kind of...):
flap (a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body)
Meronyms (parts of "soft palate"):
uvula (a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate)
Holonyms ("soft palate" is a part of...):
palate; roof of the mouth (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)
Context examples:
The defects include partially formed or absent ear, nose, lip, mandible, and/or soft palate.
(Goldenhar Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the hard palate, soft palate, or uvula.
(Benign Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the soft palate or uvula.
(Benign Soft Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Removal of tissue from the soft palate for microscopic examination.
(Biopsy of Soft Palate, NCI Thesaurus)
By three days post-infection, more than 90 percent of the viral material collected from the soft palate contained the reverted, long chain α2,6-binding form of virus.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
Clinical manifestation of the digestive system consisting of contraction of the muscle of the pharynx caused by stimulation of sensory receptors on the soft palate, by psychic stimuli, or systemically by drugs.
(Gagging, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A congenital abnormality consisting of a fissure in the midline of the hard and/or soft palate; it is the result of the failure of the two sides of the palate to fuse during embryonic development.
(Cleft Palate, NCI Thesaurus)
The cavity located at the upper end of the alimentary canal, behind the teeth and gums that is bounded on the outside by the lips, above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue.
(Oral cavity, NCI Thesaurus)
The geniculate ganglion cells send central processes to the brain stem and peripheral processes to the taste buds in the anterior tongue, the soft palate, and the skin of the external auditory meatus and the mastoid process.
(Geniculate Ganglion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Flu viruses with superior ability to transmit through the air are those that outcompete other flu virus variants in the soft palate and that inflammation associated with infection there stimulates the sneezing and coughing needed to better propel flu virus onward to new contacts.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
