- Frontonasal prominence
Infobox Embryology
Name = PAGENAME
Latin =
GraySubject = 13
GrayPage = 67
Caption = Under surface of the head of a human embryo about twenty-nine days old. (Frontonasal process labeled at center left.)
Caption2 =
System =
CarnegieStage =
Precursor =
GivesRiseTo =
MeshName =
MeshNumber =
DorlandsPre = p_36
DorlandsSuf = 12669829
During the third week two areas of thickenedectoderm , the olfactory areas, appear immediately under thefore-brain in the anterior wall of thestomodeum , one on either side of a region termed the frontonasal prominence (or process).By the upgrowth of the surrounding parts these areas are converted into pits, the
olfactory pits , which indent the frontonasal prominence and divide it into a medial and two lateralnasal process es.External links
*
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/hnanim/face/face.swf Flash animation at indiana.edu]
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.