Copula linguae
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Copula linguae | |
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Floor of pharynx of human embryo of about the end of the fourth week. | |
Floor of pharynx of human embryo about thirty days old. | |
Latin | copula linguae |
Gray's | subject #241 1103 |
Dorlands/Elsevier | c_54/12258655 |
The furcula is at first separated from the tuberculum impar by a depression, but later by a ridge, the copula, formed by the forward growth and fusion of the ventral ends of the second and third branchial arches.
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