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soft palate
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The muscular, non-bony arch-shaped posterior portion of the palate extending from the posterior edge of the hard palate. [ http://www.feedexp.org http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_cjm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_palate http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0060023 ]
Term info
Label
soft palate
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Tonsils_diagram.jpg
external definition
A muscular arch-shaped structure that is composed of the musculus uvuli and parts of tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini, palatoglossus and palatopharyngeus and attaches to the hard palate and modulates the connections between the oral cavity and pharynx soft tissue arch .[FEED]
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
velum palatinum, palatum molle, muscular palate, velum
has relational adjective
velar
id
UBERON:0001733