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It embraces in a V-like groove the mesethmoid (nasal septum) above, and lies on the palate.

—Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

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Of or pertaining to the mesethmoid.
The middle ethmoidal bone; the median element of the compound ethmoid bone. It is the part called in human anatomy the lamina perpendicularis, or perpendicular plate of the ethmoid, as distinguished from the lateral masses of that bone, or the eth-moturbinals. See ethmoid.

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It embraces in a V-like groove the mesethmoid (nasal septum) above, and lies on the palate Lines from First Edition only Its position is indicated by a heavy black line in 4, and it is called, the vomer bone (vo Lines from Second Edition only In the frog it is represented by two laterally situated bones This is the vomer bone (vo The nasal passages are partially blocked by foliated bony outgrowths, from the inner aspect of their walls, which in life are covered with mucous membrane, and increase the surface sensitive to smell. — Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
Its body, the pars perpendicularis (mesethmoid) shows no similarity with a vertebral centrum. — Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
Its body, the _pars perpendicularis_ (mesethmoid) shows no similarity with a vertebral centrum. — Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
It embraces in a V-like groove the mesethmoid (nasal septum) above, and lies on the palate. — Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

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from Greek μέσος, middle, + English ethmoid.

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