Template:Human Embryo - Biological definition 2006
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The following biological definition comes from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) discussion paper (2006).
This definition was also published earlier by the same group in 2007. Findlay JK, Gear ML, Illingworth PJ, Junk SM, Kay G, Mackerras AH, Pope A, Rothenfluh HS & Wilton L. (2007). Human embryo: a biological definition. Hum. Reprod. , 22, 905-11. PMID: 17178746 DOI. Historically: "The distinction between the embryonic and the fetal periods at 8 postovulatory weeks has proved valuable. It is based primarily on the probability that more than 90 percent of the more than 4,500 named structures of the adult body have appeared by that time." O'Rahilly R. 1979. Early human development and the chief sources of information on staged human embryos. Europ. J. Obstet. Gynec. Reprod. Biol., 9, 273-280. PMID 400868 O'Rahilly R. and Müller F. Developmental Stages in Human Embryos. Contrib. Embryol., Carnegie Inst. Wash. 637 (1987).
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