Copula linguae

Copula linguae
Copula linguae
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Floor of pharynx of human embryo of about the end of the fourth week.
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Floor of pharynx of human embryo about thirty days old.
Latin copula linguae
Gray's subject #241 1103

Also known as the hypobranchial eminence.

The furcula is at first separated from the tuberculum impar by a depression, but later by a ridge, the copula, formed by the forward growth and fusion of the ventral ends of the second, third, and part of the fourth branchial arches.

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v · d · eHuman development of head and neck (GA 1.65, TE E5.3, 5.4)
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