Definitions for palatine bone

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. palatine, palatine bone, os palatinum(noun)

    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

Wiktionary

  1. palatine bone(Noun)

    Either of the two bones that make up the hard palate and situated at the rear of the nasal cavity.


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