Definitions for vomers

vomers vo·mer

Spelling: [voh-mer]
IPA: /ˈvoʊ mər/

Vomers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in vomers (emorsv).

Definitions for vomers

noun

  1. a bone of the skull in most vertebrates, in humans forming a large part of the septum between the right and left cavities of the nose.

Origin of vomers

First recorded in 1695-1705, vomer is from the Latin word vōmer plowshare

Examples for vomers

Skull without large maxillary crests; palatines not hidden by pterygoids, but divided by vomer.

The bones associated with the olfactory capsules are the nasals and vomer.

The oblique division into vomer in front and pterygoid bone behind is shown by Goldfuss in his original figure of Scaphognathus.

Of these bones the vomer is never related to a cartilaginous tract below, while the palatines and pterygoids usually are so.

The premaxillaries, vomer, and nasals do not belong to the cranial scheme; they are covering bones connected with the ethmoid.

The muscular fibres shine through the delicate skin as in australis, and the teeth on the jaws and vomer appear to be similar.

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 true Dolphins also appear to show the same intervention of the vomer in a few cases.

The vomer has a thin anterior ridge that gradually disappears before it reaches the border of the premaxillary.

Word Value for vomers
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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