palatine

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The palatine tonsils are on the sides of the throat, and there are also lingual tonsils on the back of the tongue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

The book was spectacularly ill timed, although it earned Apian a position as court astronomer to Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and eventually the title of imperial count palatine.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

These are the paired maxillary, palatine, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior nasal conchae bones, and the unpaired vomer and mandible bones.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The largest region of each of the palatine bone is the horizontal plate.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It came to the notice of the elector palatine Friedrich III., who had it translated into German and published.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various