Vomeronasal cartilage
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| Frontal section of nasal cavities of a human embryo 28 mm. long. (Vomeronasal cartilage labeled at bottom left.) | |
| Latin | cartilago vomeronasalis |
| Gray's | subject #223 996 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | c_12/12217270 |
In the septum close to the nasopalatine recess a minute orifice may be discerned; it leads backward into a blind pouch, the rudimentary vomeronasal organ of Jacobson, which is supported by a strip of cartilage, the vomeronasal cartilage (or Jacobson's cartilage).
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