vomer in English
noun
1
the small thin bone separating the left and right nasal cavities in humans and most other vertebrates.
The maxilla fuses with the vomer bone and the nasal septum.
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1. 10 The vomer itself rests on the maxillary and palatine crest.
2. The Actinosts normal; the cranium with the condyle confined to the basioccipital (ill defined); the exoccipitals coalesced with the epiotics and opisthotics; the vomer obsolete; the opercular apparatus com- 1889.] Zoology
3. The two-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means) has 20 teeth on each side of the upper jaw (4 of which are on the premaxilla), 16 teeth on each side of the lower jaw, and 14–15 on each vomer.