A thick, horizontal process of the maxilla. It forms the anterior three quarters of the hard palate, the horizontal plate of the palatine bone making up the rest. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_process_of_maxilla ]

Synonyms: pars palatina of maxilla processus palatinus (maxilla)

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Term information

Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Gray160.png

external definition

Lingual ledge on the inner surface of the maxilla.

has related synonym

processus palatinus maxillae

palatine process

processus palatinus ossis maxillae

palatal process

lamina horizontalis

id

UBERON:0005871

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606