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palatine suture

n :  either of two sutures in the hard palate:  a  :  a transverse suture lying between the horizontal plates of the palatine bones and the maxillae  b  :  a median suture lying between the maxillae in front and continued posteriorly between the palatine bones .
 
 

 
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