vomer

A thin flat bone forming the inferior and posterior part of the nasal septum and dividing the nostrils in most vertebrates.

A genus of carangoid fishes found in warm seas.

In zoology and anatomy, a bone of the skull of most vertebrates; a membrane-bone or splint-bone developed in the median line of the skull, beneath the basicranial axis, primitively consisting of paired halves, which sometimes remain separate, one on each side of the middle line.

In ornithology, the pygostyle or rump-post; the large, peculiarly shaped terminal bone of the tail of most birds, consisting of several ankylosed vertebræ. See cut under pygostyle.

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.

The pygostyle.

The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.

thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum