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The Vomer 



The vomer (ploughshare) is thin and quadrilateral, and 

 placed vertically between the nasal fossa?. The upper and 

 posterior borders, and the anterior and inferior, are of nearly 

 equal lengths. It articulates with six bones the sphenoid, 

 ethmoid, two palate, two superior maxillary and with the 

 septal cartilage of the nose. 



FIG. n 



Perpendicula 

 plate of eth- 

 moid. 



Fpace for 



triangular 



cartilage 



of septum. 



Vomer, 



Frontal sinuses. 

 Crista galli. 



Sphenoidal sinuses. 



Rostrum of 

 sphenoid. 



Palate process. 



Int. pteryyoid 

 plate. 



Vomer in situ. 



Each surface presents a groove leading the nasopalatine 

 nerve to the foramen of Scarpa. The superior border divides 

 into two alte, which receive the rostrum of the sphenoid be- 



