A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
1.) The narrow bone forming the lower and posterior half of the nasal septum (Morris 1992). 2.) A usually median unpaired bone on the roof of the mouth, often bearing teeth; also called prevomer.
A median unpaired bone lying in the floor of the nasal cavity above the hard palate. zygoma (pl. zygomata) - See zygomatic arch.
A roughly triangular bone that forms the inferior and posterior of the nasal septum.
the anterior bone on the roof of the mouth
thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum
a bone in your leg, by the way
Latin = plough-share; hence, the bone of the nasal septum which is split in two at its upper edge.
(L. vomer, ploughshare). A flat, thin bone forming the nasal septum.
Thin roughly triangular plate of bone on the floor of the nasal cavity and part of the nasal septum. Separates the nasal cavities into left and right sides.
Unpaired bone of cranium that may form septum in nasal passage.
A median paired or unpaired bone lying in the floor of the nasal cavity (above the hard palate in mammal
The vomer (from Latin vomer, -ĕris, "ploughshare") is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull. It is located in the midsagittal line, and touches the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the left and right palatine bones, and the left and right maxillary bones.