Vomer

Plowshare.


Thin bone forming the lower and back part of the nasal septum.


A narrow wafer of bone that forms the inferior part of the nasal septum that continues posteriorly to the cranium, where it joins the sphenoid bone.


A thin plate of bone that forms part of the nasal septum.


The plow-shaped bone that forms the lower and posterior portion of the nasal septum, articulating with the ethmoid, the sphenoid, the two palatine bones, and the two maxillae.


The slender bone plate that constitutes the rear portion of the nasal septum.


 


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