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- New Latin · borrowed fromtensor vēlī palātīnī“tensor of the palatine veil”
- English todaytensor veli palatini
Borrowed from New Latin tensor vēlī palātīnī (“tensor of the palatine veil”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tensor veli palatini
Today it means: A ribbonlike muscle of the palate that arises from the scaphoid fossa, from the spine of the sphenoid bone, and from the lateral cartilaginous wall of the Eustachian tube, that is attached by a tendon which hooks around the pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone to insert especially into the soft palate, and that acts especially to tense the soft palate. Full definition →
New Latin tensor vēlī palātīnī