Palatine bone

Study entry

Parts

A pair of bones whose horizontal plates form the posterior part of the hard palate.

Joints

With the maxillae (palatine processes) and with each other, in the hard palate; with the sphenoid, in the pterygopalatine fossa.

Source: cap. 8, «Cráneo»

Other structures in this region

• Thyroid cartilage
• Cricoid cartilage
• Arytenoid, corniculate and cuneiform cartilages
• Epiglottis (epiglottic cartilage)
• Membranes and ligaments of the larynx (conus elasticus and quadrangular membrane)
• Frontal bone
• Parietal bone
• Occipital bone