Complete failiure to form the palate is very rare and is usually associated with other anomalies of face and limb development (Nager Syndrome); cleft palates, of varying degrees of severity are more common and can be an isolated finding.The palate develops from the first pharyngeal arch and a key part of the embryonic 'face' called the frontonasal prominence.
The pineal develops from the diencephalon which is one of the divisions of the very early forebrain (prosencephalon); the diencephalon gives rise to the thalamus, hypothalamus, subthalamus and the epithalamus.The pineal is embryologically related to the epithalamus.
The palate and the pineal have distinct sites of the development and palatal problems are much more common than pineal developmental disorders.
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