palatal process
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Palatal expander — A palatal expander. A palatal expander, also known as a rapid palatal expander, rapid maxillary expansion appliance, palate expander or orthodontic expander, is used to widen the upper jaw so that the bottom and upper teeth will fit together… … Wikipedia
palatal shelf — palatine shelf lateral palatine process … Medical dictionary
Palatine process of maxilla — Infobox Bone Name = Palatine process of maxilla Latin = processus palatinus ossis maxillae, processus palatinus maxillae GraySubject = 38 GrayPage = 162 Caption = The bony palate and alveolar arch. (Palatine process labeled at bottom left.)… … Wikipedia
palatine process — n a process of the maxilla that projects medially, articulates posteriorly with the palatine bone, and forms with the corresponding process on the other side the anterior three fourths of the hard palate called also palatal process … Medical dictionary
palatine process lateral — a shelflike projection developing from the medial aspect of each maxillary prominence of the upper jaw in the embryo, later fusing with each other and with the nasal septum to form the palate. Called also palatal or palatine shelf … Medical dictionary
Palate — The roof of the mouth. The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate). * * * The bony and muscular partition between the oral and nasal cavities. SYN: palatum [TA], roof of mouth, uraniscus. [L. palatum, p … Medical dictionary
Old English phonology — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects … Wikipedia
Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… … Universalium
Palatalization — Palatalized ◌ʲ IPA number 421 Encoding Entity (decimal) #690; … Wikipedia
Sesotho phonology — Notes: *All examples marked with ‡ are included in the audio samples. If a table caption is marked then all Sesotho examples in that table are included in the audio samples. *The orthography used in this and related articles is that of South… … Wikipedia
