Lateral nasal prominence

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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 prominences (or lateral nasal processes, or nasolateral, or nasal prominences )

Pathology

Failure to fuse can cause a cleft lip.

See also

• Medial nasal prominence

Additional images

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Under surface of the head of a human embryo about twenty-nine days old.

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Head end of human embryo of about thirty to thirty-one days.

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Same embryo as shown in Fig. 45, with front wall of pharynx removed.

References

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