Medial nasal prominence

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.
Latin prominentia nasalis medialis
Gray's subject #13 67
Precursor frontonasal prominence
Gives rise to intermaxillary segment
Code TE E5.3.0.0.0.0.11

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]

References

  1. ^ Senders CW, Peterson EC, Hendrickx AG, Cukierski MA (2003). "Development of the upper lip". Arch Facial Plast Surg 5 (1): 16–25. doi:10.1001/archfaci.5.1.16. PMID 12533133. http://archfaci.ama-assn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=12533133. 
  2. ^ 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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