Olfactory pit
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| Olfactory pit | ||
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| Head end of human embryo, about the end of the fourth week. | ||
| Gray's | subject #13 68 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_21/12642855 | |
By the upgrowth of the surrounding parts the olfactory areas are converted into pits, the olfactory pits, which indent the fronto-nasal process and divide it into a medial and two lateral nasal processes.
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 Head end of human embryo of about thirty to thirty-one days. |
 Same embryo as shown in Fig. 45, with front wall of pharynx removed. |
 The roof of the mouth of a human embryo, aged about two and a half months, showing the mode of formation of the palate. |
 The head and neck of a human embryo thirty-two days old, seen from the ventral surface. |
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