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Week 7 - Human Embryo Stages and Events (GA week 9) 
Embryo Week: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9
Day
Stage
Event
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{{Pancreas{{ Week 7 to 20 pancreatic hormones secretion increases, small amount maternal insulin

respiratory Week 7 - enlargement of liver stops descent of heart and lungs

44
Stage 18 Stage18 bf1c.jpg

limb bone form by endochondrial ossification and throughout embryo replacement of cartilage with bone (week 5-12).

smell vomeronasal fibres and nervus terminalis[1]

liver obturation due to epithelial proliferation, bile ducts became reorganized, continuity between liver cells and gut[2]

neural duramater appears[3]

45
   

liver (stage 18 to 23) biliary ductules developed in periportal connective tissue produces ductal plates that receive biliary capillaries[2]

46
   
47
   
48
Stage 19 Stage19 bf1c.jpg Neural System Development accessory olivary nucleus appears[4]
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Note - the day timing of stages is only approximate, system names link to first page of that specific system, and events are based upon the literature cited below.
References
  1. Müller F & O'Rahilly R. (2004). Olfactory structures in staged human embryos. Cells Tissues Organs (Print) , 178, 93-116. PMID: 15604533 DOI.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Godlewski G, Gaubert-Cristol R, Rouy S & Prudhomme M. (1997). Liver development in the rat and in man during the embryonic period (Carnegie stages 11-23). Microsc. Res. Tech. , 39, 314-27. PMID: 9407542 <314::AID-JEMT2>3.0.CO;2-H DOI.
  3. Patelska-Banaszewska M & Woźniak W. (2004). The development of the epidural space in human embryos. Folia Morphol. (Warsz) , 63, 273-9. PMID: 15478101
  4. Müller F & O'Rahilly R. (1990). The human brain at stages 18-20, including the choroid plexuses and the amygdaloid and septal nuclei. Anat. Embryol. , 182, 285-306. PMID: 2268071