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Vomeronasal cartilage

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Dorlands /Elsevier
  
12217270

FMA
  
59514

TA
  
A06.1.01.016

Vomeronasal cartilage

Latin
  
cartilago vomeronasalis

The vomeronasal cartilage (or Jacobson's cartilage) is a narrow strip of cartilage, low on the medial wall of the nasal cavity. It lies between the cartilaginous nasal septum and the vomer. The cartilage lies below, but is not connected to, the rudimentary vomeronasal organ of Jacobson.

Ludwig Lewin Jacobson (1783–1843), a Danish anatomist, named this structure in 1809.

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Vomeronasal cartilage Wikipedia