UNSW Embryology

Beginnings, Growth and Development

© Dr Mark Hill (2006)

Acknowledgements

Carnegie stage 15

Facts: Week 5, 35 - 38 days, 7 - 9 mm

View: Lateral view. Amniotic membrane removed.

Identify: midbrain region, nasal pit, lens pit, 1st, 2nd and 3rd pharyngeal arches, 1st pharyngeal groove, maxillary and mandibular components of 1st pharyngeal arch, fourth ventricle of brain, heart prominence, cervical sinus, upper limb bud, mesonephric ridge, lower limb bud, umbilical cord

Events

Ectoderm: sensory placodes, lens pit, otocyst, nasal pit, primary/secondary vesicles, fourth ventricle of brain,

Mesoderm: heart prominence

Head: 1st, 2nd and 3rd pharyngeal arch, forebrain, site of lens placode, site of otic placode, stomodeum

Body: heart, liver, umbilical cord, mesonephric ridge

Limb: upper and lower limb buds, hand plate

Next

This is the last stage you need to review for this Lab. If you still have some time look at the Clinical Considerations
and overview shown in a Week by Week overview of human development.

Later stages will be covered in Week 11 Lab.

Link to next Practical 11 - BGD Lab 11

Next Practical

Laboratory 11 Covers later stages of development in the fetus.

Quick Movie Links

Movie of Growth through the Embryonic period (this shows a human embryo growing, all images are to scale)

Human Development (3 Mb, this is a large movie, images are not to scale)

Movie of Limb Growth(this shows development of the human arm from bud to paddle, to hand with arm)

Movie of Mouse Embryo Growth (this shows a mouse embryo growing)

Movie of Rotating Embryo(this shows an early embryo from all angles)

All Moviesthis shows many different ways of looking in at changes in different embryos.

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