The palatine aponeurosis a thin, firm, fibrous lamella[1] which gives strength[2] and support to soft palate.

[3] It serves as the insertion for the tensor veli palatini and levator veli palatini, and the origin for the musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and palatoglossus.

[4] The palatine aponeurosis is attached to the posterior margin of the hard palate.

Posteroinferiorly, it presents a cruved free margin from which the uvula is suspended.

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