Antonym: hard palate. Similar words: cleft palate, soft pedal, palate, palatinate, palatine, palatial, palatable, soft water. Meaning: n. a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking.
31. The chief complications were: trismus(9 2%) and soft palate damage(5 7%).
32. The temporalis myofascial flap presents good effect in closing the hard and the soft palate defects.
33. The hard palate is divided in the midline, care being taken to preserve the soft palate.
34. Conclusions:It is a good method to reconstruct the defect of hard and soft palate with temporalis myofascial flap.
More similar words: cleft palate, soft pedal, palate, palatinate, palatine, palatial, palatable, soft water, unpalatable, palatoplasty, escalate, de-escalate, intercalate, contralateral, soft, coconut palm, softy, softly, soften, software, softball, soft news, soft money, soft copy, soften up, soft coal, soft soap, softness, soft spot, softener.