A surname.

plural of Velie

(anatomy) A muscle arising from the temporal bone and the cartilage of the Eustachian tube and descending to insert into the midline of the soft palate which it elevates especially to close the nasopharynx while swallowing is taking place to prevent regurgitation of liquid or solid matter through the nose.

(anatomy) A ribbonlike muscle of the palate that arises from the scaphoid fossa, from the spine of the sphenoid bone, and from the lateral cartilaginous wall of the Eustachian tube, that is attached by a tendon which hooks around the pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone to insert especially into the soft palate, and that acts especially to tense the soft palate.

plural of levator veli palatini

plural of tensor veli palatini

A town in northern Bulgaria

(archaic) A fight or skirmish.

plural of velitation

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing copper, mercury, sulfur, and tin.