palatine bone

A paired dermal bone situated in the mid-palate that helps form the hard palate [Palaeos]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the palatine bone is

A paired dermal bone situated in the mid-palate that helps form the hard palate [Palaeos]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the palatine bone is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the palatine bone connects to

The atlas records 34 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, axial skeletal system and craniocervical region, and 12 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the palatine bone. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as palatine, dermopalatine, os palatinum, palate bone and palatum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001682, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, axial skeletal system, craniocervical region, digestive system, facial skeleton and head, and 9 more.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, bone element, irregular bone, organ, skeletal element and subdivision of skeletal system, and 1 more.
• Connected to: maxilla and inferior nasal concha.
• contains: greater palatine foramen, lesser palatine foramen, palatine bone horizontal plate and palatine torus.
• connects: median palatine suture, palatoethmoidal suture and palatomaxillary suture.
• Develops from: ectoderm and neural crest.
• contributes to morphology of: facial skeleton.

Questions

Where is the palatine bone?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the palatine bone connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, axial skeletal system, craniocervical region, digestive system, facial skeleton and head, and 9 more.

Is the palatine bone the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.