How to Use soft palate in a Sentence

soft palate

noun

• The uvula and soft palate at the back of our throats also relax.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
• But most can still control their sniffing via cranial nerves in the soft palate.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 29 July 2010
• The positions of the lips and tongue, and the soft palate, also influence what kinds of sound are produced.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
• Their dissections revealed an eight-inch-wide section of the soft palate that could shift to seal the upper airway.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2022
• Muscle tone weakens as we age, including in our soft palate and neck.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• But that’s only if your snoring is coming from your nasal passages—your tongue and soft palate could also be the culprits.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• My exam did find spasms of his soft palate (palatal myoclonus) and twitching around his eyes (blepharo spasm), but these were not as bothersome to him as the pulsing.
  — Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
• When airflow is restricted, the soft palate, tonsils, adenoids, and tongue vibrate against each other as air is forced out.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 22 Sep. 2022
• Individuals learn how to strengthen and control the tongue, lip face, and soft palate muscles so their tongue doesn’t block their airway.
  — Deirdre Mundorf, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2021
• Playing wind instruments has been shown to improve snoring due to its ability to strengthen the soft palate.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Another common cause of snoring is a soft palate issue.
  — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• Transplanted parts of the face include the donor’s skin, muscle, upper and lower jaws, teeth, cartilage, soft palate, blood vessels, and nerves.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2014
• There is a wide range of surgical procedures that open the space for breathing in the throat by removing or repositioning structures such as the soft palate (back of the roof of the mouth) or tongue.
  — Eric Kezirian, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
• Another pertinent example is the flutter of the human soft palate.
  — Justin Webster, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2018
• The sniff controller, however, can measure changes in pressure caused by sniffs regulated by the soft palate, independent of breathing.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 29 July 2010
• No such screening test exists for oropharyngeal sites the tongue, soft palate, tonsils, the throat behind the nasal cavity and symptoms usually don't appear until cancer is advanced.
  — Marie McCullough, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• No such screening test exists for oropharyngeal sites - the tongue, soft palate, tonsils, the throat behind the nasal cavity - and symptoms usually don’t appear until cancer is advanced.
  — Marie McCullough, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
• Indeed, results from a number of experiments indicate that all areas of the mouth containing taste buds – including several parts of the tongue, the soft palate (on the roof of your mouth) and the throat – are sensitive to all taste qualities.
  — Steven D Munger, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• In the medical genetics department at Rienhoff’s alma mater, a colleague introduced him to Bart Loeys, an expert physician and geneticist who found Beatrice had a split uvula, the projection of the soft palate at the back of the throat.
  — Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2011

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024