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What does vomeronasal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth
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Primary detection of odorants in the vomeronasal system occurs in the vomeronasal organ.
In all squamates, including iguanians, the tongue is also used for vomeronasal chemoreception.
In addition, the vomeronasal organ in the nose is a part of a chemosensory system that is independent of the olfactory system.
The results do not apply to humans since we do not have vomeronasal organs.
Both the primary olfactory system using the olfactory bulbs, and the secondary olfactory system using the vomeronasal organ are used.
As in snakes and many mammals, all lizards have a specialised olfactory system, the vomeronasal organ, used to detect pheromones.

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