HARD PALATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard palate mean? 

• HARD PALATE (noun)
  The noun HARD PALATE has 1 sense:

1. the bony part of the roof of the mouth

  Familiarity information: HARD PALATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARD PALATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bony part of the roof of the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hard palate" is a kind of...):

surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)

Holonyms ("hard palate" is a part of...):

maxilla; maxillary; upper jaw; upper jawbone (the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium)

palate; roof of the mouth (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)

 Context examples 

A primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm that affects the hard palate, soft palate, or uvula.

(Malignant Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm that affects the hard palate.

(Malignant Hard Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate).

(Palate, NCI Dictionary)

A benign or malignant neoplasm that affects the hard palate, soft palate, or uvula.

(Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the many racemose mucous glands within the back half of the hard palate submucosa.

(Palatine Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

A squamous cell carcinoma that arises from the hard palate.

(Hard Palate Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, slow-growing and painless neoplasm that arises from the minor salivary glands in the hard palate.

(Hard Palate Pleomorphic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenoid cystic carcinoma arising from the minor salivary glands in the hard palate.

(Hard Palate Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the hard palate, soft palate, or uvula.

(Benign Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the hard palate.

(Benign Hard Palate Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)