Copula linguae

Copula linguae

Floor of pharynx of human embryo of about the end of the fourth week.

Floor of pharynx of human embryo about thirty days old.
Details
Latin Copula linguae
Identifiers
Gray's p.1103
Dorlands
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Anatomical terminology

Also known as the hypobranchial eminence.

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, third, and part of the fourth branchial arches.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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