The medial cuneiform (also known as first cuneiform) is the largest of the cuneiforms.It is situated at the medial side of the foot anterior to the navicular bone and posterior […]
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Intermediate cuneiform bone
The intermediate cuneiform (second cuneiform or middle cuneiform) is shaped like a wedge the thin end pointing downwards.The intermediate cuneiform is situated between the other two cuneiform bones (the medial […]
Subclavian groove
On the medial part of the clavicle is a broad rough surface the costal tuberosity (rhomboid impression) rather more than 2 cm. in length for the attachment of the costoclavicular […]
Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
The pharyngeal branches of the glossopharyngeal nerve are three or four filaments which unite opposite the Constrictor pharyngis medius with the pharyngeal branches of the vagus and sympathetic to form […]
Cervical sinus
During Human embryogenesis the mandibular arch and hyoid arch grow more rapidly than those behind them with the result that the latter become to a certain extent telescoped within the […]
Primary palate
Around the fifth week the intermaxillary segment araises as a result of fusion of the two medial nasal processes and the frontonasal process within the embryo. The intermaxillary segment give […]
Intermaxillary segment
In a human embryo (An organism at any time before full development birth or hatching) the intermaxillary segment is a mass of tissue formed by merging of tissues in the […]
Frontonasal prominence
During the third week of embryonic development two areas of thickened ectoderm the olfactory areas appear immediately under the fore-brain in the anterior wall of the stomodeum one on either […]
Nasal pit
By the upgrowth of the surrounding parts the olfactory areas are converted into pits the nasal pits or olfactory pits which indent the fronto-nasal process and divide it into a […]
Otic vesicle
When the mouth of the auditory pit is closed and thus a shut sac the auditory vesicle (otocyst or otic vesicle) is formed; from it the epithelial lining of the […]