soft palate (plural soft palates)
- (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.
tissue
- Arabic: حَنَك رَخُو m (ḥanak raḵū)
- Armenian: կատիկ (hy) (katik), փափուկ քիմք (hy) (pʻapʻuk kʻimkʻ)
- Catalan: vel del paladar m, paladar tou m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軟齶/软腭 (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
- Georgian: რბილი სასა (rbili sasa)
- German: Gaumensegel (de) n, weicher Gaumen (de) m, Velum (de) n
- Irish: coguas m
- Italian: palato molle m, velo palatino m, velopendulo m
- Japanese: 軟口蓋 (ja) (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 (pt) m
- Romanian: palat moale (ro) 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 (sv) n, mjuk gom c, velum (jargon)
- Tagalog: malambot na ngalangala
- Turkish: yumuşak damak (tr)
- Turkmen: ýumşak kentlewük
- Volapük: müdapalat
- Welsh: taflod feddal f, cefn y daflod m
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