The palate (palatum) consists of two parts.  Its anterior two thirds have a bony foundation, palatum osseum (the palatine process of the maxilla and the horizontal plate of the palatine bone); this is a hard palate (palatumdurium).  The posterior third, the soft palate (palatum molle) is a muscular structure with a fibrous foundation.  During quiet breathing through the nose it hangs obliquely downward and separates the oral cavity   A seam, raphe palate, is seenon the midline of the palate.  At the anterior end of the raphe is a row of transversum (ridges contributing in some animals to the icd 10 training fcouses on these.