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What is a vomer?

What is a vomer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
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The muscular fibres shine through the delicate skin as in australis, and the teeth on the jaws and vomer appear to be similar.
The tapering anterior end of the vomer enters between the premaxillae, forming a loose contact that results in slit-like fontanelles on either side.
In pigeons and sandgrouse there is no vomer, but the other bones have the Schizognathous arrangement.
The true Dolphins also appear to show the same intervention of the vomer in a few cases.
Of these bones the vomer is never related to a cartilaginous tract below, while the palatines and pterygoids usually are so.
The vomer has a thin anterior ridge that gradually disappears before it reaches the border of the premaxillary.

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