Nasal pit

Nasal pit

Head end of human embryo, about the end of the fourth week.
Details
Latin fovea nasalis
Identifiers
Gray's p.68
Code TE E5.3.0.0.0.0.9
Anatomical terminology

By the upgrowth of the surrounding parts the olfactory areas are converted into pits, the nasal pits or olfactory pits, which indent the fronto-nasal process and divide it into a medial and two lateral nasal processes.

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References

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

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