File:Human Embryo 17.8mm GIT.jpg

Human Embryo (17.8mm) Gastrointestinal Tract

Wax-plate reconstruction of the stomach, the duodenum and the pancreas. The model is represented somewhat ventrally, from the right side.

• A. du., antrum duodenale
• C., corpus gastri
• D. chol., ductus choledochus
• D. cysl.. ductus cysticus
• D. hep., ductus hepaticus
• D. panc d., ductus pancreatis dorsalis,
• D. panc. E., ductus pancreatis ventralis
• F., fundus gastri
• Oe., oesophagus
• Panr d , pancreas dorsale
• Pam. v., pancreas ventrale
• P. py , pars pylorica pastri

Online Editor Notes

• The embryo external appearance and dimensions suggest that it is a Carnegie stage 19 embryo (Week 7, 48 - 51 days, 16 - 18 mm).
• This figure appeared in 1908 as Fig. 6. Reconstruction from a human embryo of 13.6 mm

Reference

Thyng FW. The anatomy of a 17.8 mm human embryo. (1914) Amer. J Anat. 17: 31-112.

A reproduction of figure 104, page 153 of “Laboratory Textbook of Embryology,” Charles Sedgwick Minot, edition of 1910, published by P. Blakiston’s Son and Company, Philadelphia. The American Journal of Anatomy, Vol.17, No.1 These drawings are based on studies of the Harvard Embryological Collection while he was in Minot's Lab in 1907-08. He was also an anatomist at Northwestern University Medical School.

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