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| This movie shows folding of the embryonic disc beginning week 3 of development. | | This movie shows folding of the embryonic disc beginning week 3 of development. | ||
(blue) The embryo has been cut in the middle from head to tail to show the growth and folding. | (blue) The embryo has been cut in the middle from head to tail to show the growth and folding. |
Latest revision as of 09:11, 6 November 2018
Week 3
In the third week of development the blastocyst has now burrowed into the wall of the uterus and cells on the outside are beginning to form early parts of the placenta.
<html5media height="540" width="390">File:Week3_folding.mp4</html5media> | This movie shows folding of the embryonic disc beginning week 3 of development.
(yellow) The gastrointestinal tract. (red right) The connecting stalk that will form the future placental cord. (red left with white "8" shaped cavity) The early heart. |
A week 3 Human Embryo
The clump of cells inside the blastocyst has also begun to change and now looks like 2 discs of cells. It looks like 2 dinner plates stacked on top of each other. The picture shows looks at this stack from the top. Cell from the top plate move down to form a new layer.
The embryo now looks like stacked 3 dinner plates.
We use stages as a way of measuring changes in the embryo. Stages are like different years at school: each year something new will occur, each stage something new will happen. Stages are also a way of comparing changes that occur in different animals.
Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, April 19) Embryology K12 Week 3. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/K12_Week_3
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