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Fig. 83. Ventral and dorsal view of human embryo with 8 pairs of mesodermal somites

2.11 mm. CRL

(a) Ventral view, the yolk sac has been removed.

(b) dorsal view, the amnion has been removed, merely the cut edge showing.

Eternod. From models by Ziegler.

The changes that occur in the simple cylindrical body after the ventral body wall is closed comprise the differentiation of the head, neck and trunk regions and the development of the extremities as appendages of the trunk. Even in Eternod's embryo (Fig. 83) the region where the brain is developing is greater in diameter than the other part of the embryo. Thus the beginning of the head is indicated by an increase in size due primarily to the growth of the brain. The end of the head region is bent ventrally almost at a right angle to the long axis of the embryo, the bend occurring in the mid-brain and being known as the cephalic flexure. This is the first of the flexures that appear as development proceeds. On the cephalic side of the yolk sac attachment is a protrusion which indicates the position of the heart in what now may be called the cervical region or neck. Between the protrusion caused by the heart and the fore-brain there is~a depression which foreshadows the oral and nasal cavities and is now called the oral fossa.

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