roof of the mouth

Examples

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• The dentist examined the roof of the mouth to check for any abnormalities.

• Eating hot food can sometimes burn the sensitive roof of the mouth.

• If it's in the roof of the mouth, it's usually also for some reason in the lungs.

• It changes the jaw at the roof of the mouth drops a whole lot of horrible things.

  George Janko

• This suggestion produces a feeling of height in the roof of the mouth and in the area of the cheekbones.

  Academic text (1993)

• And if I can't do that, if I can't figure out how to walk through walls, I'm thinking one shot through the roof of the mouth, boom, problem solved.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Uh, well, the hockey player, Gregory Gumtree... Th-Th-the boy that I failed to save... just like all the rest, he had missing legs... missing tongue, missing teeth, a hole in the roof of the mouth.

  Tusk (2014)

• With their tongues, monitor lizards sample the air for chemical compounds, then transfer the compounds into two cavities that open into the roof of the mouth.

  Academic text (2003)

• Vowel height refers to the vertical position of the tongue relative to either the roof of the mouth or the aperture of the jaw and is defined as the relative frequency of the Fl.

  Academic text (2012)

• Autarchoglossans use their tongues to pick up heavy, non-airborne chemicals and deliver them to the vomeronasal organ, a sense organ in the roof of the mouth.

  Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

P

palate

vsroof of the mouth

20 4.1

The roof inside your mouth that separates it from your nose

is the common everyday name for the same upper mouth surface

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology