Perpendicular plate of palatine bone
Lamina perpendicularis ossis palatini
- Related terms: Perpendicular plate; Perpendicular plate (Palatine bone); Palatine bone: Perpendicular plate
Definition
The perpendicular plate is the the vertical part of palatine bone. It is thin, of an oblong form, and presents two surfaces and four borders.
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
