- horizontal plate
- horizontal plate n a plate of the palatine bone that is situated horizontally, joins the bone of the opposite side, and forms the back part of the hard palate compare PERPENDICULAR PLATE (2)
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Horizontal plate of palatine bone — Infobox Bone Name = Horizontal plate of palatine bone Latin = pars horizontalis GraySubject = 41 GrayPage = 167 Caption = Left palatine bone. Nasal aspect. Enlarged. Caption2 = Left palatine bone. Posterior aspect. Enlarged. System = Precursor =… … Wikipedia
horizontal plate of palatine bone — lamina horizontalis ossis palatini … Medical dictionary
plate — [ plat ] n. f. • 1170; de 1. plat 1 ♦ Archéol. Plaque de métal appliquée sur le haubert; chacune des plaques qui constituent une armure rigide. Armures de plates, d écailles d acier. 2 ♦ (1694) Mar. Embarcation à fond plat servant aux travaux de… … Encyclopédie Universelle
plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… … Universalium
horizontal — horizontal, ale, aux [ ɔrizɔ̃tal, o ] adj. et n. f. • orizontal 1545; de horizon I ♦ Adj. 1 ♦ Qui est parallèle à l horizon astronomique, perpendiculaire à la direction de la pesanteur en un lieu (opposé à vertical). Plan horizontal; ligne,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Plate — Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate armor — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate bone — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate girder — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate glass — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
