soft palate

English

Noun

soft palate (plural soft palates)

(anatomy) The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.

Synonyms

velum
muscular palate

Translations

tissue

Arabic: حَنَك رَخُو‎ m (ḥanak raḵū)
Armenian: կատիկ (hy) (katik), փափուկ քիմք (hy) (pʿapʿuk kʿimkʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 軟齶 (zh), 软腭 (zh) (ruǎn'è)
Crimean Tatar: yımşaq tañlay
Czech: měkké patro (cs) n
Finnish: kitapurje (fi), pehmeä kitalaki
French: voile du palais (fr) m, palais mou (fr) m
Galician: padal brando m
German: weicher Gaumen (de) m
Italian: palato molle m, velo palatino m, velopendulo m

Japanese: 軟口蓋 (なんこうがい, nankōgai)
Korean: 연구개 (yeon-gugae)
Lithuanian: minkštasis gomurys m
Polish: podniebienie miękkie n
Portuguese: palato mole (pt) m
Russian: мя́гкое нёбо n (mjáxkoje njóbo), за́днее нёбо n (zádneje njóbo)
Spanish: velo del paladar m
Tagalog: malambot na ngalangala
Turkmen: ýumşak kentlewük
Volapük: müdapalat

See also

hard palate

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