soft palate

English

Noun

soft palate (plural soft palates)

1. (anatomy) The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.

   Synonyms: velum, muscular palate

   Coordinate term: hard palate

   • 1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles:

     The part which is connected by a thin tendinous end to the tendinous membrane, that is extended above upon the soft palate, coming from the nostrils; and with that membrane seems to be inserted into the middle and posterior edge of the palate bones.

Translations

tissue

• Arabic: حَنَك رَخُو‎ m (ḥanak raḵū)
• Armenian: կատիկ (hy) (katik), փափուկ քիմք (hy) (pʿapʿuk kʿimkʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟齶 (zh), 软腭 (zh) (ruǎn'è)

• Crimean Tatar: yımşaq tañlay
• Czech: měkké patro (cs) n
• Finnish: kitapurje (fi), pehmeä kitalaki
• French: voile du palais (fr) m, palais mou (fr) m
• Galician: padal brando m
• German: weicher Gaumen (de) m
• Italian: palato molle m, velo palatino m, velopendulo m

• Japanese: 軟口蓋 (なんこうがい, nankōgai)
• Korean: 연구개 (yeon-gugae)
• Kurdish: nermika esmanê dev (ku) f
• Lithuanian: minkštasis gomurys m
• Polish: podniebienie miękkie n
• Portuguese: palato mole (pt) m
• Russian: мя́гкое нёбо n (mjáxkoje njóbo), за́днее нёбо n (zádneje njóbo)
• Spanish: velo del paladar m
• Tagalog: malambot na ngalangala
• Turkmen: ýumşak kentlewük
• Volapük: müdapalat

Further reading

• soft palate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia