Intermaxillary segment
Appearance
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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 | |
Precursor | medial nasal prominence[1] |
Gives rise to | primary palate[2] |
Anatomical terminology |
In a human embryo, the inter-maxillary segment is a mass of tissue which forms from the merging of some of the tissues in the vicinity of the nose.It is important to human survival. It is primordial, meaning that in the further development of the embryo, this particular mass no longer appears, but parts of it remain in "the inter-maxillary portion of the upper jaw, the pro-labial portion of the upper lip, and the primary palate".
More precisely, the rounded lateral angles of the medial process constitute the globular processes. It is also known as the intermaxillary segment.[3] It gives rise to the premaxilla.[4]
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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.
See also
References
- ^ Langman, Jan; Thomas Sadler (2006). Langman's medical embryology. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 272. ISBN 0-7817-9485-4.
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- ^ Globular Process - Medical Dictionary Definition
- ^ Development Of The Head And Neck
External links
- http://www.ana.ed.ac.uk/anatomy/database/humat/notes/embryo/branchi.htm
- http://isc.temple.edu/marino/embryology/Face98/face_text.htm
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 68 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)