What's the difference between palate and roof?

Palate


Definition:

  • (n.) The roof of the mouth.
  • (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
  • (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  • (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

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.

Roof


Definition:

  • (n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
  • (n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
  • (n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a roof.
  • (v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (2) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
  • (3) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (4) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (5) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
  • (7) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (8) They were about to put the roof on it,” Hickman said.
  • (9) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
  • (10) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
  • (11) I have to put a roof over my son’s head.” Junior doctors will be balloted to decide whether to strike over a radical new contract imposed on them by the Department of Health, which redefines their normal working week to include Saturday and removes overtime rates for work between 7pm and 10pm every day except Sunday.
  • (12) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
  • (13) The keratinocytes of the blister roof showed aggregation of the tonofibrils at the periphery, and vacuolization of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (14) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
  • (15) Glasgow Central station was also closed to the public after flying debris shattered part of the building's glass roof.
  • (16) Berkeley has launched a new design called the Urban House, a three-storey house with a private roof garden instead of a back garden.
  • (17) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
  • (18) I went inside, and the sound of the rain on the roof and the darkness inside made me very afraid.
  • (19) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (20) The operative method involves removal of portions of the orbital rim, orbital roof, and sphenoid bone.