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nerve in its passage through the cribriform plate. One enters 

 dorsally of the latter nerve trunk and the other on its ventral 

 side. The vomeronasal nerve differs in the horse examined from 

 the condition found in the other mammals studied in that it 



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Fig. 48 Ventrolateral view of forward portion of the brain and of part of the 

 nasal septum of the horse, showing the relations of the nervus terminalis. »The 

 olfactory bulb was removed to bring into view the ganglion terminale and the 

 intracranial plexus, from the angle at which the dissection was made. 



does not divide into the characteristic number of bundles until 

 it has passed through the bony plate as a single compact trunk, 

 surrounded by a heavy sheath. A relatively large strand of the 

 terminahs penetrates this sheath mimediately distal to the point 



