The outgrowths of the embryonic maxillary prominences that come together during prenatal development to form the secondary palate. [ http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/hnanim/face/face.html http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/palatal+shelves ]
Synonyms: secondary palatal shelf palatal shelf lateral palatine process
Term information
- MA:0001581
- VHOG:0000378
- EHDAA:9283
- EHDAA2:0001364
- FMA:295948
- EMAPA:17362
pheno_slim
The outgrowths of the embryonic maxillae that come together during prenatal development to form the secondary palate. [TFD][VHOG]
Term relations
- neural crest-derived structure
- has quality some multicellular
- bearer of some mass
- bearer of some maximally connected
- part of some skeleton of upper jaw
- bearer of some 3-D shape
- bearer of some multicellular
- develops from some maxillary prominence
- existence starts during or after some zygote stage
- part of some multicellular organism
- has part some cell
- end stage some death stage