Movie shows a 12 week fetus ultrasound. At the beginning of the movie, embryo lies with head to left and labels show the head, body and spine.
Movie zooms first to show the jaw (mandible and maxilla) region of the head. Two bright (white) areas show the forming mandible and maxilla. Note the embryo hand adjacent to the mouth and jaw movements indicate "sucking" the thumb or hand.
The second part of the movie shows a measurement of nuchal translucency, a research interest of Dr A. McLennan for screening of chromosomal abnormality in the 1st trimester. (an enlargement in this region can be indicative of abnormality).
Quicktime movie: 12wk.mov (812 Kb) in new window.
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UNSW Embryology has many movies to show some of the dynamic changes that occur during embryonic development. These have been grouped together on separate pages (listed in righthand menu) that can be also be opened from a pull down menu on each page.
Special thanks to Dr Andrew McLennan, Foetal Medicine Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital for original video materials.
There are additional 2D, 3D and Multiplanar ultrasound movies available from the listed ultrasound links on this page.
There also an about movies page which has technical details and terms listed.
Both Mac and PC computers require the Quicktime plug-in to be present in your browser or on your computer.
Internet users note that some of these movies are large and will take some time to download depending on your connection speed.
DVD users can find Quicktime on the DVD or the latest version can be downloaded from here Quicktime
Please email Dr Mark Hill if you wish to make a comment about this current project.