Intermaxillary segment
Appearance
Intermaxillary segment | |
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![]() Diagram showing the regions of the adult face and neck related to the fronto-nasal process and the branchial arches. (Globular processes labeled at center right.) | |
Details | |
Gives rise to | primary palate[1] |
Anatomical terminology |
The rounded lateral angles of the medial process constitute the globular processes. It is also known as the "intermaxillary segment"[2] It gives rise to the premaxilla.[3]
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Head end of human embryo of about thirty to thirty-one days.
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Same embryo as shown in Fig. 45, with front wall of pharynx removed.
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The roof of the mouth of a human embryo, aged about two and a half months, showing the mode of formation of the palate.
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The head and neck of a human embryo thirty-two days old, seen from the ventral surface.
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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 68 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)