| 释义 |
palatine bone
noun
: either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae and in front of the pterygoids and in man are of an extremely irregular form, each consisting of a horizontal plate which joins the bone of the opposite side and forms the back part of the hard palate and a vertical plate which is extended into three processes and helps to form the floor of the orbit, the outer wall of the nasal cavity, and several adjoining parts |