(a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.
(a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
(n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(5) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(6) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(7) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(8) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(9) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(10) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(13) In addition to vocal cord paralysis on the laryngoscopy, videofluoroscopy confirmed diminished mobility of the soft palate.
(14) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(15) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(16) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
(17) Palates from C3H mice were implanted onto prepared graft beds in histocompatible F1 hybrid mice.
(18) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(19) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(20) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
Palatial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.
(a.) Palatal; palatine.
(n.) A palatal letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tensor palati muscle is divisible into four functional units: (1) anterior part, vertical fibers; (2) middle part, oblique fibers; (3) posterior part, horizontal fibers; and (4) posterior-most part, osseous origin.
(2) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(3) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
(4) It’s a unique place.” It may say something about Bradford’s straitened circumstances that, whereas some city leaders hold court from palatial offices, the leader of Bradford district council’s HQ is comically modest.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) The peculiar absence of the medial cartilaginous lamina near the isthmus is attributed to the following: (1) freedom of movement of cartilaginous tube; (2) better anchorage of tubal cartilage passively by levator palati; (3) "kinking" of canal; and (4) compression of the lumen.
(7) Rhodes did say that co-ordinating military support for the Syrian opposition movement would be a central part of discussions at the king’s palatial desert camp, Rawdat Khuraim – and hinted that Washington had already stepped up its work in Syria, a move that has reassured the Saudis.
(8) At the divisional courthouse, a palatial complex of octagonal towers and Florentine domes originally built as the accounting office of British Burma, the windows have blown out and vegetation sprouts from every nook, yet inside the decaying shell, the courts continue to press on.
(9) The pair bought a palatial home overlooking Regent's Park and Schaffer concentrated on family life and her triplet daughters, Amber, Madison and Daisy.
(10) An experimental study of the modus operandi of tensor and levator palati muscles over the Eustachian tube was conducted in two dogs.
(11) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(12) The morphological relationship between the musculus uvulae and levator palati muscles and their importance in velopharyngeal closure was studied in cadavers by simulation of levator action, palate serial section and dissection, and in various subjects by nerve stimulation and blockade.
(13) The insubordinate, dandyish Lieutenant TE Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is in the palatial Cairo offices of the Arab Bureau's Mr Dryden (Claude Rains) to discuss secondment with the Bedouin.
(14) His homes in Johannesburg and his ancestral village of Qunu are grand by local standards but hardly palatial.
(15) Looking relaxed in rolled-up shirt sleeves in his palatial Carlton House Terrace office, with sweeping views across St James's Park to Whitehall and the London Eye, Nurse added that combining Pfizer's £40bn cash pile (which it has built up from overseas profits and wants to spend abroad rather than see it taxed in the US ) with AstraZeneca's pipeline of potentially groundbreaking drugs could produce real benefits and open doors all over the world.
(16) Yanukovych is accused of illegally appropriating a giant estate outside Kiev and building a palatial complex.
(17) The prevalences for leukoplakia, preleukoplakia and leukokeratosis nicotina palati were 4·9%, 2·9% and 9·5%.
(18) A five-star hotel has just been completed, while a new elite is building palatial houses with satellite dishes, pools and high-security walls.
(19) A new technique for the treatment of bilateral palatal palsy involves the submucosal transposition of the tensor palati muscles of both sides to form an active muscular sling for the elevation of the paralyzed soft palate.
(20) Three days after the Saturday Night Live taping we are at a private party that Prince is hosting at his palatial Beverly Hills home to launch 3121 .