Cloacal membrane

Cloacal membrane
Cloacal membrane
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Tail end of human embryo from fifteen to eighteen days old.
Latin membrana cloacalis
Gray's subject #6 47
Carnegie stage 7
Days 15
Precursor caudal end of the primitive streak
Code TE E5.4.0.0.0.0.15

The cloacal membrane is the membrane that covers the embryonic cloaca when still in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs.

It is formed by ectoderm and endoderm coming into contact with each other.[1] After separation of the cloaca into the urogenital and anal parts, the cloacal membrane, in turn, is separated into a urogenital membrane and an anal membrane.

It has been suggested that developmental errors may be associated with enlarged clitorises.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Endoderm -- Developmental Biology -- NCBI Bookshelf". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=dbio&part=A3745. 
  2. ^ van der Putte SC (November 2009). "Penislike clitorises with megalourethras in nonvirilized female fetuses and a newborn. A histopathologic study and its bearing on their pathogenesis". J. Pediatr. Surg. 44 (11): 2223–9. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.07.024. PMID 19944238. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022-3468(09)00582-X. 

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This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

v · d · ePrenatal development/mammalian embryogenesis · Development of the urinary and reproductive organs (GA 11.1204, TE E5.6-7)
Common urinary and
reproductive system
Urinary system
development
Reproductive system
development
Primarily internal
Primarily external

LPM → Genital tubercle → Labioscrotal swelling → Scrotum or Labia majora

LPM → Genital tubercle → Primordial phallus → Penis or Clitoris

IM → Gubernaculum

Peritoneum → Processus vaginalis or Canal of Nuck
Homologues

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noco/acba/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, urte

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proc/asst, drug (G1/G2B/G3CD)

M: ♂ MRS

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noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug (G3B/4BE/4C)
v · d · ePrenatal development/Mammalian development of digestive system, coelom and septa, and mesenchymal mesenteric masses (GA 11.1101, TE E5.4, 5.8-9)
Gut
Upper GI tract and accessory
Abdominopelvic
Other
Intra-embryonic coelom · Extra-embryonic coelom

M: DIG

anat(t, g, p)/phys/devp/enzy

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug(A2A/2B/3/4/5/6/7/14/16), blte

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