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What (who) is roof of the mouth - definition
ROOF OF MOUTH
Palatal; Palates; Roof of the mouth; Palatum; Pallate; Mouth roof; Roof of mouth; Uraniscus; Roofs of the mouths; Roofs of mouths; Palatal bones
roof of the mouth
¦ noun the palate.
palate
(palates)
1.
Your palate is the top part of the inside of your mouth.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
2.
You can refer to someone's palate as a way of talking about their ability to judge good food or drink.
...fresh pasta sauces to tempt more demanding palates.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
palatal
['pal?t(?)l]
¦ adjective
1. relating to the palate.
2. Phonetics (of a speech sound) made by placing the blade of the tongue against or near the hard palate (e.g. y in yes).
¦ noun Phonetics a palatal sound.
Derivatives
palatalization or palatalisation noun
palatalize or palatalise verb
palatally adverb
Wikipedia
Palate
The palate () is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. A similar structure is found in crocodilians, but in most other tetrapods, the oral and nasal cavities are not truly separated. The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior, bony hard palate and the posterior, fleshy soft palate (or velum).
Examples of use of roof of the mouth
1. The optical fibre lit up the eyeballs through the roof of the mouth.
2. The oral strips had a promising start – looking like tiny sheets of rice paper which you place on the roof of the mouth before sleeping, they dissolve during the night, lubricating the soft tissue at the back of the mouth and reducing the possibility of noisy vibration.
3. Until you have seen it, you would never know how close the base of the brain is to the roof of the mouth, for example.‘ He said donors began to pull out after Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist, hosted the controversial television show Anatomy for Beginners.