: the bony anterior part of the palate forming the roof of the mouth
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Recent Examples on the WebThen 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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