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As the top of your tongue presses up against the hard palate , the roof of your mouth, food is shoved to the back of the mouth. This action in turn brings the soft palate and ursula (the place at the very back of the mouth where there is a teardrop shape located) into action. They keep the food from being misguided toward the nose.
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What the is the difference between the hard palate and soft palate?
The hard palate is the bony front portion of the roof of the mouth, while the soft palate is the muscular and flexible back portion. The hard palate is involved in speech production and helps with chewing, while the soft palate helps with swallowing and closing off the nasal passages during swallowing.
Soft palate?
The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the hard palate. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone.
What extends behind the hard palate?
soft palate
A cleft lip is a congenital fissure that involves the upper lip, hard palate, and/or soft palate?
A cleft lip is a congenital fissure that involves the upper lip. A cleft palate involves the hard or soft palate.
What part of the human soft palate is lacking in a pig?
The part of the human soft palate that is lacking in a pig is the uvula. This is the rounded drop of tissues that extends from the soft palate to just behind the hard palate.
What is the medical term meaning palate?
The medical term is Palate. It can be the Hard palate the bony part in front, or the fleshy part called the Soft palate, which lies behind the hard palate.
Is the roof of the mouth the hard palate or the soft palate?
The palate.
Posterosuperior boundary of the oral cavity?
The posterosuperior boundary of the oral cavity is formed by the hard and soft palate. The hard palate is composed of the palatine processes of the maxilla and the horizontal plate of the palatine bone. The soft palate is a muscular extension of the hard palate and separates the oral and nasal cavities.
What is the bone supported part of the roof of the mouth?
hard palate, under the tongue is soft palate
What separates the nasal cavity from the oral cavity?
The soft and hard palate.That is the palate, also known as the roof of your mouth.
What is the boney overgrowth at the midline of the palate called?
The hard part of the palate is called the hard palate. If you move your tongue to the back and begin feeling a softer part that still feels boney, it's called the velum, or soft palate.
What is the top of inside of the mouth called?
Front is called "hard palate", middle/back is called "soft palate". Or you can just call the whole thing "palate".
