Definitions for vomer

vomer vo·mer

Spelling: [voh-mer]
IPA: /ˈvoʊ mər/

Vomer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in vomer (emorv).

Definitions for vomer

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 vomer

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

Examples for vomer

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

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

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

In another case, the man came home with an iron shot firmly wedged and lodged in the center of the vomer.

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

The vomer is approximately U-shaped, when viewed from below.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for vomer
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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