soft palate

English

Noun

soft palate (plural soft palates)

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

   Synonyms: velum, muscular palate

   Coordinate term: hard palate

   • 1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles:

     The part which is connected by a thin tendinous end to the tendinous membrane, that is extended above upon the soft palate, coming from the nostrils; and with that membrane seems to be inserted into the middle and posterior edge of the palate bones.

Translations

tissue

• Arabic: حَنَك رَخُو‎ m (ḥanak raḵū)
• Armenian: կատիկ (katik), փափուկ քիմք (pʿapʿuk kʿimkʿ)
• Catalan: vel del paladar m, paladar tou m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟齶／软腭 (zh) (ruǎn'è)

• Crimean Tatar: yımşaq tañlay
• Czech: měkké patro n
• Finnish: kitapurje, pehmeä kitalaki
• French: voile du palais m, palais mou m
• Galician: padal brando m
• German: Gaumensegel n, weicher Gaumen m, Velum n
• Irish: coguas 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)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nermika esmanê dev f

• Lithuanian: minkštasis gomurys m
• Polish: podniebienie miękkie n
• Portuguese: palato mole m
• Romanian: palat moale n, vălul palatin
• Russian: мя́гкое нёбо n (mjáxkoje njóbo), за́днее нёбо n (zádneje njóbo)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měke njebjo n, welum m

• Spanish: velo del paladar m
• Swedish: gomsegel n, mjuk gom c, velum (jargon)
• Tagalog: malambot na ngalangala
• Turkish: yumuşak damak
• Turkmen: ýumşak kentlewük
• Volapük: müdapalat
• Welsh: taflod feddal f, cefn y daflod m

Further reading

• soft palate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia