Palate
Head and neck.
Palate exhibiting torus palatinus. Torus palatinus (pl palatal tori) is a bony growth on the Palate.
Latin	palatum
Gray's	subject #242 1112
MeSH	Palate
Dorlands/Elsevier	p_02/12607517

The palate (pronounced /ˈpælɨt/) is the roof of the mouth in humans and vertebrate animals. The mouth, buccal cavity, or oral cavity is the first portion of the Alimentary canal that receives food and begins digestion by mechanically breaking up Vertebrates are members of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Chordates with backbones or spinal columns The grouping sometimes includes It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. The mouth, buccal cavity, or oral cavity is the first portion of the Alimentary canal that receives food and begins digestion by mechanically breaking up The nasal cavity (or nasal fossa) is a large air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior bony hard palate, and the posterior fleshy soft palate or velum. The hard palate is a thin horizontal bony plate of the Skull, located in the roof of the mouth The soft palate (or velum, or muscular palate) is the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the Mouth. The maxillary nerve branch of the trigeminal nerve (V) supplies sensory innervation to the palate. The maxillary nerve (V2 is one of the three branches of the trigeminal nerve, the fifth Cranial nerve. The trigeminal nerve (the fifth Cranial nerve, also called the fifth nerve or simply V) is responsible for sensation in the face Cutaneous innervation refers to the area of the Skin which is supplied by a specific Nerve, that is by a Cutaneous nerve.

Etymology

The name is Middle English and is probably derived from the Latin palatum or the Old French palat. Middle English is the name given by Historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

Function

When functioning in conjunction with other parts of the mouth the palate produces certain sounds, particularly velar, palatal, palatalized, postalveolar, alveolo-palatal, and uvular consonants. Palatal consonants are Consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the Hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth Palatalization or palatalisation (ˌpælətəlɨˈzeɪʃən generally refers to two phenomena As a process or the result of a process Postalveolar consonants are Consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the Alveolar ridge, placing them a bit further back in the In Phonetics, alveolo-palatal (or alveopalatal) Consonants are palatalized postalveolar Fricatives articulated with Uvulars are Consonants articulated with the back of the Tongue against or near the uvula, that is further back in the mouth than Velar consonants In Articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a Speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper Vocal tract, the upper vocal

See also

• Hard palate
• Soft palate
• Cleft palate
• Language
• Vocal tract
• pallet and palette, objects whose names are homophonous with palate for many English-speakers