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Examples of hard palate in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
In 2017, Gavin Rogers, 21 months old with the wispy blond hair of a baby, had bone graft and hard palate repair.
—Megan Rose, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2024
The soft palate is the back top part of the mouth connected to the hard palate.
—Reven Widener, Health, 31 May 2023
Then the scientists took MRI scans of the participants’ hard palate, the bony roof of the mouth.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2019
Over 50 generations, the transmission of sounds amplified the slight differences of the hard palate the team reported Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2019
But the girl’s nose and hard palate died from the infection and had to be removed.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2022
Dangling from the hard palate, burrowed in the nooks and crannies of the tongue and intertwined in the plaque on teeth are the many hundreds of species that make up the human oral microbiome.
—Eryn Brown, Smithsonian, 8 Nov. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1779, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard palate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20palate. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
hard palate
noun
: the bony front part of the roof of the mouth
Medical Definition
hard palate
noun
: the bony anterior part of the palate forming the roof of the mouth
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