| Mucous membrane of the soft palate | |
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| Gray's | subject #243 1141 |
The mucous membrane of the soft palate is thin, and covered with stratified squamous epithelium on both surfaces, excepting near the pharyngeal ostium of the auditory tube, where it is columnar and ciliated. Gray's Anatomy the Respiratory apparatus ( Apparatus Respiratorius Respiratory system Respiratory apparatus In biology and medicine epithelium is a tissue composed of cells that line the cavities and surfaces of structures throughout the body On the lateral wall of the Nasal part of the pharynx is the pharyngeal opening of auditory tube ( pharyngeal ostium) somewhat triangular in shape and bounded behind The Eustachian tube (or auditory tube) is a tube that links the Pharynx to the Middle ear.
According to Klein, the mucous membrane on the nasal surface of the soft palate in the fetus is covered throughout by columnar ciliated epithelium, which subsequently becomes squamous; some anatomists state that it is covered with columnar ciliated epithelium, except at its free margin, throughout life. The soft palate (or velum, or muscular palate) is the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the Mouth. A fetus (or foetus or fœtus) is a developing Mammal or other Viviparous Vertebrate, after the Embryonic stage and
Beneath the mucous membrane on the oral surface of the soft palate is a considerable amount of adenoid tissue. Adenoids (or pharyngeal tonsils, or nasopharyngeal tonsils) are a mass of Lymphoid tissue situated at the very back of the nose in the roof of the
The palatine glands form a continuous layer on its posterior surface and around the uvula. The uvula (ˈjuːvjələ is the conic projection from the posterior edge of the middle of the Soft palate, composed of connective tissue containing a number of Racemose
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