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palatine

[ US /ˈpæɫəˌtaɪn/ ]
[ UK /pˈælɐtˌiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
  2. either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
  3. any of various important officials in ancient Rome
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to a palace
  2. of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
  3. relating to or lying near the palate
    palatal index
    the palatine tonsils

How To Use palatine In A Sentence

  • Posteriorly, the palatine continues this shelf and restricts the maxilla to a more lateral position.
  • The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • Below the mandible it receives the submental, palatine, and submaxillary veins, and, generally, the vena comitans of the hypoglossal nerve. VII. The Veins. 3b. The Veins of the Head and Neck
  • All night long Romulus sat alone on the summit of the Palatine.
  • Palatine shareholders are being offered a significant increase in capital value and income, plus a substantial premium over net asset value.
  • The three distinct tonsillar masses include the palatine, lingual, and pharyngeal (clinically, the adenoids), which form an incomplete ring around the entrance to the throat.
  • Symptoms of strep throat may include pharyngeal erythema and swelling, tonsillar exudate, edematous uvula, palatine petechiae, and anterior cervical lymphadenopathy.
  • Huxley to recognise what are the true homologues of the quadrate, the palatine and the pterygoid in adult bony fish, and to prove that the symplectic and the metapterygoid (tympanal, Cuvier) are bones peculiar to fish. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • Palatine shareholders are being offered a significant increase in capital value and income, plus a substantial premium over net asset value.
  • Its lower portion, which hangs like a curtain between the mouth and pharynx is termed the palatine velum. XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth
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