Definitions of palatine in English
adjective
(1) Relating to or lying near the palate
(2) Of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
(3) Of or relating to a palace
noun
(1) Any of various important officials in ancient Rome,(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands,the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome,supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces,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
(2) Any of various important officials in ancient Rome
(3) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
(4) The most important of the Seven Hills of Rome
(5) Supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces
(6) 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
Examples of palatine in English
(1) Symptoms of strep throat may include pharyngeal erythema and swelling, tonsillar exudate, edematous uvula, palatine petechiae, and anterior cervical lymphadenopathy.
(2) Speeding down the M6, we entered the county palatine of Lancashire.
(3) The earls and bishops palatine were powerful men, but subjects they remained.
(4) The lingual artery may provide the following unusual branches: the superior laryngeal, the submental, and the ascending palatine arteries.
(5) The blood supply of the palate is provided anteriorly through the incisor foramen and posteriorly through the great palatine foramen where the great palatine artery emerges.
(6) The two tonsillar pillars define the palatine tonsils anteriorly and posteriorly.
(7) In Chester the palatine earl had a master serjeant of the Peace.
(8) The three distinct tonsillar masses include the palatine , lingual, and pharyngeal (clinically, the adenoids), which form an incomplete ring around the entrance to the throat.
(9) An example of a palatine earl was William fitz Osbern, who was made earl of Hereford in 1066 or 1067.
(10) Posteriorly, the palatine continues this shelf and restricts the maxilla to a more lateral position.
(11) The county of Cornwall, although not normally reckoned a palatine county, has a similar status to Lancashire.
(12) Figure 3 shows the needle penetrating the tissue of the palatine tonsil in an attempt to drain an abscess.
(13) It also undertakes various administrative duties associated with the area of the historical County Palatine of Lancaster.
(14) The palatines lie between the suborbital fenestrae, with the anterior palatine processes forming a short V-shaped wedge.
(15) No vomers or palatines are preserved in any phlegethontiid.
(16) The palatines are dermal bones in the mid-palate.
synonyms of palatine
palatal
palatine bone
