Medial nasal prominence

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Medial nasal prominence
Head end of human embryo of about thirty to thirty-one days.
Same embryo as shown above, with front wall of pharynx removed.
Gray's subject #13 67
Precursor frontonasal prominence
Gives rise to intermaxillary segment
Dorlands/Elsevier p_36/12669845

The medial nasal prominence (nasomedial) is an embryological structure that forms the upper lip and nose.[1]

They join to form the intermaxillary segment.[2]

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  1. ^ Senders CW, Peterson EC, Hendrickx AG, Cukierski MA (2003). "Development of the upper lip". Arch Facial Plast Surg 5 (1): 16–25. PMID 12533133. 
  2. ^ Langman, Jan; Thomas Sadler (2006). Langman's medical embryology. Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 272. ISBN 0-7817-9485-4. 

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