Usually means: Flexible, muscular back roof mouth.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word soft palate:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft palate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. soft palate: Merriam-Webster
  3. soft palate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. soft palate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. soft palate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. soft palate: Vocabulary.com
  7. soft palate: Wordnik
  8. soft palate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. soft palate: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. soft palate: Wiktionary
  11. soft palate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. soft palate: Dictionary.com
  13. Soft palate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. soft palate: Rhymezone
  15. soft palate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. soft palate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. soft palate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Palate, soft, soft palate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft palate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Palate, soft, Soft palate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Soft palate: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. soft palate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  10. Palate, soft, soft palate: Medical dictionary
  11. Palate, soft, Soft palate: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (soft palate)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.

Similar:
velum, palate, hard palate, palatine aponeurosis, palatogenesis, palatine gland, oral cavity, velopharynx, palatine tonsil, staphyle, more...

Opposite:
hard palate, bony palate

Phrases:
soft palate myositis, cleft soft palate, dorsal soft palate displacement, elevator muscle of soft palate, soft palate dislocation, more...

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Similar:
velum, palate, hard palate, palatine aponeurosis, palatogenesis, palatine gland, oral cavity, velopharynx, palatine tonsil, staphyle, more...

Opposite:
hard palate, bony palate

Phrases:
soft palate myositis, cleft soft palate, dorsal soft palate displacement, elevator muscle of soft palate, soft palate dislocation, soft palate paresis, soft palate tonsil, soft redivision palate, more...



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