Plate (anatomy)
A plate in animal anatomy may refer to several things:
[Flat bone]s (examples: bony plates, dermal plates) of vertebrates
- an appendage of the Stegosauria group of dinosaurs
- articulated armoured plates covering the head of thorax of Placodermi, an extinct class of prehistoric fish
- bony shields of the Ostracoderms such as the dermal head armour of members of the class Pteraspidomorphi that include dorsal, ventral, rostral and pineal plates
- plates of a carapace, such as the dermal plates of the shell of a turtle
- dermal plates partly or completely covering the body of the fish in the order Gasterosteiformes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives
- plates of dermal bones of the armadillo
- Zygomatic plate, a bony plate derived from the flattened front part of the zygomatic arch in rodent anatomy
Other flat structures
- hairy plate-like keratin scales of the pangolin
- Basal plate (disambiguation), several anatomy-related meanings
Other meanings in [human anatomy]
- Alar plate, a neural structure in the embryonic nervous system
- Cribriform plate, of the ethmoid bone received into the ethmoidal notch of the frontal bone and roofs in the nasal cavities
- Epiphyseal plate, a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone
- Lateral pterygoid plate of the sphenoid, a broad, thin and everted bone that forms the lateral part of a horseshoe like process that extends from the inferior aspect of the sphenoid bone
- Nail plate, the hard and translucent portion of the nail
- Perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone, a thin, flattened lamina, polygonal in form, which descends from the under surface of the cribriform plate, and assists in forming the septum of the nose