0 the soft piece of muscle and tissue that forms the top of the mouth at the back, separating the passages behind the nose from the throat --
These are often not found until after they have become worse because of the difficulty in visualizing the entire soft palate.
Nonkeratinized squamous epithelium covers the soft palate, inner lips, inner cheeks, and the floor of the mouth, and ventral surface of the tongue.
These lesions most often appear on the tonsillar pillars (adjacent to the tonsils), but also on the soft palate, tonsils, uvula, or tongue.
Snoring typically consists of vibration of the uvula and the soft palate (velum).
This changes the contour of the posterior part of the soft palate.
In horses, it is a rare condition usually involving the caudal soft palate.
Patterns of soft palate movements in six languages.
The anterior bulging of the soft palate prevents premature spillage of food from the oral cavity to the pharynx.
