Where are the hard and soft palate located?
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Where is the hard palate located? Where is the soft palate located?
the front of the mouth in the roof of the mouth
the back of the roof of the mouth
Soft palate Hard palate
Where are the hard and soft palate located?
Hard palate Soft palate Palate Necrotizing sialometaplasia Taste bud Pharynx Palatine tonsil Salivary gland Alveolar ridge Oral mucosa
The <b>hard</b> palate is a thin horizontal bony plate made up of two bones of the facial 
skeleton, <b>located</b> in the roof of the mouth. ... towards the larynx. This partition is 
continued deeper into the mouth by a fleshy extension called the <b>soft palate</b>. The <b>soft palate</b> is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of 
the mouth. The <b>soft palate</b> is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the 
<b>hard</b>&nbsp;... The palate /ˈpælɪt/ is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It 
separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. A similar structure is found in 
crocodilians, but in most other tetrapods, the oral and nasal cavities are not truly 
separated. The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior, bony <b>hard</b> palate and 
the ... the anterior, bony hard palate and the posterior, fleshy <b>soft palate</b> (or velum
). Necrotizing sialometaplasia (NS) is a benign, ulcerative lesion, usually <b>located</b> 
towards the ... The condition most commonly is <b>located</b> at the junction of the <b>hard</b> 
<b>and soft palate</b>. However, the condition may arise anywhere minor salivary 
glands&nbsp;... Taste buds contain the taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory 
cells. The taste receptors are <b>located</b> around the small structures known as 
papillae found on the upper surface of the tongue, <b>soft palate</b>, upper esophagus, 
the cheek, and epiglottis. The pharynx (plural: pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the mouth and 
nasal cavity, and ... It includes the space between the internal nares and the <b>soft</b> 
<b>palate</b> and lies above ... are lymphoid tissue structures <b>located</b> in the posterior 
wall of the nasopharynx. ... <b>Hard</b> palate &middot; <b>Soft palate</b> &middot; Palatine raphe &middot; Incisive 
papilla. Palatine tonsils, commonly called the tonsils and occasionally called the faucial 
tonsils, are tonsils <b>located</b> on the left and right sides at the back of the throat,&nbsp;... The salivary glands in mammals are exocrine glands that produce saliva through 
a system of ... The sublingual glands are a pair of major salivary glands <b>located</b> 
inferior to the tongue, anterior to the submandibular glands. ... labial, and lingual 
mucosa, the <b>soft palate</b>, the lateral parts of the <b>hard</b> palate, and the floor of the&nbsp;... The alveolar ridge is one of the two jaw ridges, extensions of the mandible or 
maxilla, either on the roof of the mouth between the upper teeth and the <b>hard</b> 
palate or on the bottom of the mouth behind the lower teeth. Most of the roof of 
one&#39;s mouth is the <b>hard</b> palate and the <b>soft palate</b>. ... The upper alveolar ridge is 
located between numbers 4 and 5. The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane lining the inside of the mouth. It 
comprises stratified ... Nonkeratinized squamous epithelium covers the <b>soft</b> 
<b>palate</b>, inner lips, inner cheeks, and the floor of the mouth, and ventral surface of 
the tongue. Keratinized squamous epithelium is present in the gingiva and <b>hard</b> 
palate as&nbsp;...
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