Location
Part Descriptions
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Fun Facts
100
How the palatine bones sit in relation to the maxillae.
What is posterior?
100
The cavity of which the horizontal plate of the palatine bone is situated directly inferior of.
What is the nasal cavity?
100
The skull surface that the palatine bones help form.
What is the inferior portion?
100
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What is the palatine bone?
100
The opening that houses the greater palatine nerve and its corresponding vessels.
What is the greater palatine foramen?
200
The location of your body that you can palpate your palatine bones.
What is the roof of your mouth?
200
The letter that the palatine bone is shaped like
What is 'L'?
200
The way which the vertical plate extends from the palatine bone.
What is upwards?
200
The portion labeled green.
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What is the horizontal plate of palatine bone?
200
Another name for the vertical plate of the palatine bone.
What is the perpendicular plate of the palatine bone?
300
How the palatine bone is situated in relation to the maxillae.
What is superior?
300
The point of articulation between the palatine bone and the maxilla; located on the maxilla.
What is the palatine process?
300
The amount of the bony palate that is made up from the palatine bone's horizontal plate.
What is 1/4?
300
The portion in the middle (on both right and left sides)
What are the perpendicular plates?
300
The typical number of palatine bones in a person.
What is 2?
400
How the palatine bone is situated in relation to the sphenoid bone.
What is anterior?
400
The area which articulates with the maxillae to complete the posterior bony palate.
What is the horizontal plate of the palatine bone?
400
The specific part of the vertical plate that helps form the posteromedial bony orbit.
What are the upper tips?
400
Structures at the very top (on the left and right)
What are the orbital processes?
400
How all the parts of the palatine bone mature.
What is intramembranous ossification?
500
How the palatine bone is situated in relation to the ethmoid bone.
What is posterior?
500
The two cranial bones between which the vertical plate of the palatine bone is situated between.
What are the maxillae and the sphenoid bones?
500
The number of cavities that the palatine bones help form the walls of.
What is '3'?
500
The top medial protrusions:
What are the sphenoid processes?
500
The type of bone classification that the palatine bones are.
What is irregular?