palatine raphe

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   the seam at the middle of the hard palate

   Broaderraphe

Questions about palatine raphe

What does palatine raphe mean?

palatine raphe means "the seam at the middle of the hard palate".

Is palatine raphe a common word?

palatine raphe 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.