noun
definition
The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
Examples of vomers in a Sentence
The chief character which distinguishes the Batrachians from the reptiles, leaving aside the metamorphoses, lies in the arrangement of the bones of the palate, where a large parasphenoid extends forwards as far or nearly as far as the vomers and widely separates the pterygoids.
In most of the former the palatines fuse with the vomers, whilst they remain distinct, unless entirely lost, in the latter.
Acanthostoma), on the vomers, palatines and Ta, Truncus arparasphenoid in many salamandrids (Pletho- teriosus.
The batrachians they are confined to the vomers pericardium and palatines or to the vomers alone (37).