velum in English

noun
1
a membrane or membranous structure, typically covering another structure or partly obscuring an opening, in particular.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "velum" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "velum", or refer to the context using the word "velum" in the English Dictionary.

1. Velopharyngeal Adequacy sufficient functional closure of the velum against the postpharyngeal wall so that air and hence sound cannot enter the nasopharyngeal and nasal cavities.

2. Articulators: ( ahr-tik'yŭ-lā-tŏrz ) Organs of the speech mechanism that form the configurations required for production of meaningful speech sounds, i.e., the teeth, lips, mandible, tongue, velum, and pharynx

3. This unit introduces the names and locations of the Articulators that are used to produce the sounds of English: the tongue, lips and teeth, the alveolar ridge, the palate, the velum, and the nasal cavity.

4. This unit introduces the names and locations of the Articulators that are used to produce the sounds of English: the tongue, lips and teeth, the alveolar ridge, the palate, the velum, and the nasal cavity

5. Passive Articulators include: the the the the the the upper lip teeth alveolar ridge palate velum pharynx ACTIVE Articulators An active articulator is the articulator that does all or most of the moving during a speech production.

6. We observed an Avicularium stab a newly settled veliger crawling on the colony and saw the lophophore of a bryozoan take in a swimming veliger, causing the latter to retract its velum and sink to the bottom of the culture dish

7. Less than 10 EGU the electrical thresholds were found in 79% at the anterior third of the tongue and the foliate and vallate papillae but only in 69% at the soft palate. 14% revealed a bilateral ageusia of the velum palatinum.

8. The main Articulators are the tongue, the upper lip, the lower lip, the upper teeth, the upper gum ridge (alveolar ridge), the hard palate, the velum (soft palate), the uvula (free-hanging end of the soft palate), the pharyngeal wall, and the glottis (space between the vocal cords). …

9. 2.2 Articulators Speaking involves controlling parts of the mouth and nose to shape the air that comes from the lungs. This unit introduces the names and locations of the Articulators that are used to produce the sounds of English: the tongue, lips and teeth, the alveolar ridge, the palate, the velum, and the nasal cavity