vomers

Noun

vomer (plural vomers)

1. The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
   • Only in the Chelonia (Fig. 32 b) are the prevomers single, though sometimes fused in the Rhiptoglossa, Theropoda, and Theriodontia (Figs. 43 c, 44 e). They are edentulous in all known reptiles except the Cotylosauria (Fig. 6), some Theromorpha, perhaps, certain "Pseudosuchia," Diaptosauria (Fig....1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles