Tonsilla veli palatini

Palate of a horse
1 incisive papilla, 2 hard palates , 3 palatal palate, 4 palatal suture, 5 soft palate , 6 soft palate almond

The tonsilla veli palatini ( soft palate almond ) is a collection of lymphatic tissue in the form of an almond on the underside of the soft palate ( velum palatinum ). It belongs to the lymphatic ring of the pharynx , but does not occur in all mammals , it is not developed in humans . In dogs , cats , sheep and goats , there are only individual lymph follicles or scattered lymphoreticular tissue at this point , so that one cannot speak of a soft palate almond either. In cattle additional individual bellows occur. In horses and pigs , the soft palate almond appears as a "bed almond", so it bulges out clearly on the mucous membrane with its bellows. In the horse it is 4 × 2.5 cm in size and lies median on the soft palate. In pork, the soft palate almond is a pair of plates.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Nickel, August Schummer, Eugen Seiferle: Textbook of the anatomy of domestic animals. Volume 2: Guts . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-8304-4152-6 , p. 57.