BGDB Face and Ear - Early Embryo
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Week 4
During week 4 a number of features appear visible on the embryo surface:
At the level of the body somite bulges and limb buds appear. At the level of the head sensory placodes and pharyngeal arches appear.
Carnegie Stage 12 to 14
Week 4
Week 5
Sensory Placodes
Pharyngeal Arches
Stage 13 Pharyngeal Arches
Look through the cross-sections of the stage 13 embryo observing and identfying structures of the face and ear visible at this stage.
Stage 13 Pharynx
Structures derived from Arches
Arch |
Nerve |
Muscles |
Skeletal |
Artery |
(maxillary/mandibular) |
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mastication |
Meckel's cartilage |
maxillary(terminal branches) |
(hyoid) |
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facial expression |
Reichert's cartilage |
stapedial (embryonic) |
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stylopharyngeus |
greater cornu of hyoid, lower part of body of hyoid bone |
common carotid, internal carotid (root) |
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intrinsic muscles of larynx, pharynx; levator palati |
thyroid, cricoid, arytenoid, corniculate and cuneform cartilages |
4 - aortic arch, right subclavian |
Structures derived from Pouches
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