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soft palate

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001733


The muscular, non-bony arch-shaped posterior portion of the palate extending from the posterior edge of the hard palate. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_cjm http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0060023 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_palate http://www.feedexp.org ]

Term info

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Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000001

A muscular arch-shaped structure that is composed of the musculus uvuli and parts of tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini, palatoglossus and palatopharyngeus and attaches to the hard palate and modulates the connections between the oral cavity and pharynx soft tissue arch .[FEED]

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Tonsils_diagram.jpg

has related synonym

velum palatinum, muscular palate, palatum molle, velum

id

UBERON:0001733

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8782

prefLabel

Soft palate