os palatinum

1. 1.

   either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits

   Synonymspalatinepalatine bone

   Broaderbone

Questions about os palatinum

What does os palatinum mean?

os palatinum means "either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits".

What is another word for os palatinum?

Close synonyms include palatine, palatine bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is os palatinum a common word?

os palatinum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.