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Definition of Palatine bone
1. Noun. Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.
Definition of Palatine bone
1. Noun. (anatomy) Either of the two bones that make up the hard palate and situated at the rear of the nasal cavity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Palatine bone
1. An irregularly shaped bone posterior to the maxilla, which enters into the formation of the nasal cavity, the orbit, and the hard palate; it articulates with the maxilla, inferior nasal concha, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones, the vomer and its fellow of the opposite side. Synonym: os palatinum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatine Bone
Literary usage of Palatine bone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"9 ; median cleft of the velum ; hard palate cleft to beyond the horizontal portion
of the palatine bone in the median line ; palatine bone cleft further ..."
2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"palatine bone. Os palatinum (Fig. 33).—The palate bone or palatine bone consists
of two portions, a horizontal or palatal portion (a) and a perpendicular ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Articulation of left palatine bone with maxilla. The palatine bone (Os Palatinum;
Palate Bone). ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"After the new tooth has taken its position in front of the old tooth and at the
very extremity of the palatine bone, the latter proceeds to extend itself ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"This last is very narrow ; it ha* one portion descending into the temple, which,
uniting to an ascending part of the palatine bone and to are-entering ..."
6. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"the palatine bone, conveying nerves to the palate : one, the anterior and larger ;
another, running nearly parallel to it, which is smaller. ..."
7. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"... round, and devoid of processes ; palatine bone ascending into the orbit;
pterygoid bone strongly developed, with an angular termination; zygoma rather ..."
8. Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit: An Elementary Laboratory Textbook in by Benjamin Arthur Bensley (1910)
"The ridge of bone on which the alveoli of these teeth are borne is separated from
the palatine bone by the infraorbital groove. ..."
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