Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vomer"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Vomer \Vo"mer\, n. [L., a plowshare.] (Anat.)
(a) 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.
(b) The pygostyle.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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