Help us test the new version of OLS, with updated versions of ontologies and lots of new features!

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4

JSON

secondary palate

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001716

The part of the palate formed from the fusion of the two palatine shelves, extensions of the maxillary prominences. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_palate http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/hnanim/face/face.html ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

definition
  • The part of the palate formed from the fusion of the two palatine shelves, extensions of the maxillary prominences.
depicted by
  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Pig_snout_sagittal_cut.jpg
  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Illu01_head_neck.jpg
function notes
  • separates respiratory and oral passages
has broad synonym
  • palate
  • palatum
has exact synonym
  • palatum definitivum
  • oral roof
  • palatum secundarium
  • definitive palate
has related synonym
  • palatum
  • roof of mouth
id
  • UBERON:0001716
taxon notes
  • present in mammals and some reptiles. A similar structure is found in crocodilians, but, in most other tetrapods, the oral and nasal cavities are not truly separate. The secondary palate is formed by bilateral medial extensions of maxillary processes. The extensions (palatine processes) meet at the midline, merging dorsally with nasal septum and rostrally with primary palate. The secondary palate (hard palate) separates nasal and oral cavities. Caudal extension of the secondary palate into the pharynx, forms a soft palate which divides the rostral pharynx into dorsal (nasopharynx) and ventral (oropharynx) chamber.