Week 5
Key Events of Human Development during the fifth week (week 5) following fertilization or Clinical week 7 (LMP).
Timeline
Event | ||
Pituitary - Week 5 elongation, contacts infundibulum, diverticulum of diencephalon
Heart - Week 5 septation starts, atrial and ventricular Respire - Week 5 left and right lung buds push into the pericardioperitoneal canals (primordia of pleural cavity) Respire - Week 5 to 17 lung histology - pseudoglandular Hearing - Week 5 cochlear part of otic vesicle elongates (humans 2.5 turns) | ||
Stage 14 | Ectoderm - sensory placodes, lens pit, otocyst, nasal placode, primary/secondary vesicles, fourth ventricle of brain
Mesoderm - continued segmentation of paraxial mesoderm (somite pairs), 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 visible externally as bulges. Limb - upper and lower limb buds growing Neural - first appearance of the future cerebral hemispheres. Cerebellar plate differentiated to an intermediate layer, and future rhombic lip identifiable[1] GIT - Liver hepatic gland and its vascular channels enlarge, hematopoietic function appears[2] | |
Stage 15 |
Neural - cranial nerves (except olfactory and optic) are identifiable in more advanced embryos[3] | |
Eye - 35 to 37 days retinal pigment present |
References
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, June 8) Embryology Week 5. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Week_5
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