The vomer serves as a thin and delicate partition between the two cavities of the nose. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
We examined the shape of the arch above the vomer (when holding the skull upside down). From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The nasal fossae are situated on either side of the median partition formed by the vomer and cartilaginous nasal septum. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The premaxillaries, vomer, and nasals do not belong to the cranial scheme; they are covering bones connected with the ethmoid. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The "bodies" of these vertebræ are the body of the occipital (basioccipital), the two bodies of the sphenoid (basi - and pre-sphenoid), and the vomer. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The occipital, the parietal, and frontal, the bones which surround the internal ear, the vomer, the premaxilla, and the quadrate bones, may be given as examples. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
As an example of serial homology we might take the centra of the vertebræ -- the vomer, the presphenoid, the basisphenoid, the basioccipital and the series of centra in the spinal column. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Unusual Things to Teach Your Body | Impact Lab] Reference
Median wall of left nasal cavity showing vomer in situ. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations. Fig. 173] Reference
Its position is indicated by a heavy black line in 4, and it is called, the vomer bone (vo.). From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
The vomer is situated in the median plane, but its anterior portion is frequently bent to one or other side. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 7. The Vomer] Reference
Near the lateral margins of the alæ of the vomer, at the roots of the pterygoid processes, are the pharyngeal canals. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull] Reference
The palatine articulates with six bones: the sphenoid, ethmoid, maxilla, inferior nasal concha, vomer, and opposite palatine. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 5. The Palatine Bone] Reference
How placoid scales may have given rise to these structures will be understood by considering such a bone as the vomer of the frog. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
At the superior border of the vomer may be seen the expanded alæ of this bone, receiving between them the rostrum of the sphenoid. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull] Reference
It presents, in front, a large, triangular notch, which receives the cartilage of the septum; and behind, the free edge of the vomer. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull] Reference
Anti aging beauty that it is a reversibly periodical to philaenus a few lapse in an cathexis imperatively trumpeter to a unfeignedly disorganized or ten vomer. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It may be prolonged backward (especially in children) as a narrow process, the sphenoidal process, for some distance between the vomer and perpendicular plate of the ethmoid. From Wordnik.com. [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell] Reference
The medial border is thicker in front than behind, and is raised above into a ridge, the nasal crest, which, with the corresponding ridge of the opposite bone, forms a groove for the reception of the vomer. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)] Reference
In the Basle nomenclature, certain bones developed in association with the nasal capsule, viz., the inferior nasal conchæ, the lacrimals, the nasals, and the vomer, are grouped as cranial and not as facial bones. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5. The Skull] Reference
173 Median wall of left nasal cavity showing vomer in situ. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 7. The Vomer] Reference
(exoccipitals), the alæ of the two sphenoids (alisphenoids and orbitosphenoids) and the lateral surfaces of the vomer. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer -- the "basifacial axis" ( 'f. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Findit obliqu» | uga vomer nnco \. From Wordnik.com. [Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina] Reference
The vomer. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations. Fig. 174] Reference
174 The vomer. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 7. The Vomer] Reference
The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, vomer, scapula, os coxæ (hip bone), sternum, ribs, and, according to some, the patella. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton] Reference
The sphenoid articulates with twelve bones: four single, the vomer, ethmoid, frontal, and occipital; and four paired, the parietal, temporal, zygomatic, and palatine. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone] Reference
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