Carnegie stage 15
Introduction
Facts
Facts: Week 5, 35 - 38 days, 7 - 9 mm
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
Features
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 Labelled Stage 15
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Kyoto Collection
View: Lateral view. Amniotic membrane removed.
Image source: Embryology page Created: 19.03.1999
Photograph
Ed Uthman Image (pathologist in Houston, Texas)
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