The bones associated with the olfactory capsules are the nasals and vomer.
Of these bones the vomer is never related to a cartilaginous tract below, while the palatines and pterygoids usually are so.
In another case, the man came home with an iron shot firmly wedged and lodged in the center of the vomer.
The vomer is approximately U-shaped, when viewed from below.
The oblique division into vomer in front and pterygoid bone behind is shown by Goldfuss in his original figure of Scaphognathus.
The true Dolphins also appear to show the same intervention of the vomer in a few cases.
Skull without large maxillary crests; palatines not hidden by pterygoids, but divided by vomer.
The premaxillaries, vomer, and nasals do not belong to the cranial scheme; they are covering bones connected with the ethmoid.
The vomer has a thin anterior ridge that gradually disappears before it reaches the border of the premaxillary.
The muscular fibres shine through the delicate skin as in australis, and the teeth on the jaws and vomer appear to be similar.
vomer vo·mer (vō'mər)
n.
A thin flat bone of trapezoidal shape that forms the inferior and posterior portion of the nasal septum and articulates with the sphenoid and ethmoid bones, the two maxillae, and the two palatine bones.
