The vomer (/ˈvoʊmər/; Latin: vomer, lit. 'ploughshare') is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull. It is located in the midsagittal line, and articulates...

plate of ethmoid bone Septal nasal cartilage (ie, quandrangular cartilage) Vomer bone The lowest part of the septum is a narrow strip of bone that projects...

The lookdown (Selene vomer) is a species of game fish in the family Carangidae. It was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, in the 10th edition of...

Vomer flap surgery was used prior to 1975 as a surgical treatment for children with cleft palate. In this procedure, the vomer bone was used to reconstruct...

Lacrimal bones (2) Mandible Maxilla (2) Nasal bones (2) Palatine bones (2) Vomer Zygomatic bones (2) Elements of the cartilaginous viscerocranium (i.e.,...

to olfaction (sense of smell). The choanae are separated in two by the vomer. A choana is the opening between the nasal cavity and the nasopharynx. It...

bones: frontal, ethmoid, nasal, zygomatic, lacrimal, and palatine bones, the vomer, the inferior nasal concha, as well as the maxilla of the other side. Sometimes...

palate, the structure of which differs greatly in the ratites. Here, the vomer is large and connects with premaxillae and maxillopalatine bones in a condition...

temporal sphenoid ethmoid Face nasal maxilla lacrimal zygomatic palatine inferior nasal conchae vomer mandible hyoid Ear ossicles malleus incus stapes...

Zygomatic bone (cheek bones) (2) Palatine bone (2) Inferior nasal concha (2) Vomer (1) Hyoid bone (1) Mandible (1) Middle ears (6 bones in total, 3 on each...

the presence of a specially formed sclerite (hardened plate), called a vomer, which allows the male to clasp the female during mating. The order is divided...

palate of the therocephalians primarily comprises the maxillae and the vomer.) The dentary was the largest bone in their lower jaw. The cynodonts probably...

ethmoid and frontal bones. The bones of the facial skeleton (14) are the vomer, two inferior nasal conchae, two nasal bones, two maxilla, the mandible...

Same dog as picture on left, one year later Smile Pinki Palatal obturator Vomer flap surgery Cleft lip and palate organisations Face and neck development...

Selene Lookdown (S. vomer) Hairfin lookdown (S. brevoorti), frontal view Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata...

lateral margin of the ala of vomer.[citation needed] An inconstant vomerovaginal canal may lie between the ala of the vomer and the vaginal process of the...

suture joint can be found between the vomer and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone as well as between the vomer and the gap between the maxilla and...

process, frontal with parallel margins, incipient prefrontal boss, reduced vomers, absent retroarticular process, low presacral vertebral count (between 15...

the prey's escape. Many salamanders have patches of teeth attached to the vomer and the palatine bones in the roof of the mouth, and these help to retain...

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and as a rule, connected with the maxillary only by ligament. The paired vomer is narrow. The palatine bone and pterygoid are long and parallel to the...

membranes. Bones affected can include the body of the sphenoid bone, the vomer, the medial pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone, and the horizontal plate...

(Bleeker, 1855) Synonyms Priodon hexacanthus Bleeker, 1855 Naseus vomer Klunzinger, 1871 Naso vomer (Klunzinger, 1871) Naso thorpei J. L. B. Smith, 1966...

cartilage and the bones comprising the septum include the maxillary crest, vomer, and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid. Normally, the septum lies centrally...

canines are completely absent. Teeth are nonexistent on the palatines and vomer; which make up the hard palate. The blobfish also has a set of specialized...

involved in the malformation. The tear duct, nasal bone, nasal cavity, vomer (the small thin bone separating the left and right nasal passages), maxillary...

left maxilla becoming slightly concave towards the back of the snout. The vomer reached the tip of the snout, and was slightly concave, decreasing in thickness...

derived from the fact that it lies adjacent to the unpaired vomer bone (from Latin vomer 'plowshare', for its shape) in the nasal septum. It is present...

with six bones: the sphenoid, ethmoid, maxilla, inferior nasal concha, vomer and opposite palatine. There are two important foramina in the palatine...

dodo is said to have laid a single egg. Like pigeons, the dodo lacked the vomer and septum of the nostrils, and it shared details in the mandible, the zygomatic...