Lung buds
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Lung buds | ||
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Lung buds from a human embryo of about four weeks, showing commencing lobulations. | ||
Gray's | subject #235 1071 | |
Precursor | foregut | |
Dorlands/Elsevier | b_25/12199615 |
The cephalic part of the laryngo-tracheal tube becomes the larynx, and its next succeeding part the trachea, while from its caudal end two lateral outgrowths, the right and left lung buds, arise, and from them the bronchi and lungs are developed.
[edit] External links
- Dictionary at eMedicine respiratory+diverticulum
- Embryology at UNC digest-012a
- Embryology at UNC digest-013
- Swiss embryology (from UL, UB, and UF) rrespiratory/phasen02
- Histology at med.unsw.edu.au
- Diagram at chronolab.com
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