THE EMBRYO. 



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it firmness and stability, and in each there is also found one of the primitive aortic 

 arches. Continuous with the. dorsal end of the first arch and growing forward 

 from it is a triangular process, the maxillary process (Figs. 714, 71<>, 738). Ven- 

 trally it is separated from the mandibular arch by a V-shaped notch ; the first 

 branchial arch may therefore be said to divide into two, viz., the mandibular arch 



e f 8 ' Maxillary process. 



Olfactory 

 pit. 



Mandibular arch. 



Hyo-mandibular cleft. 



Auditory vesicle. 

 Hyoid arch. 



Thyro-hyoid arch. 



Siniis 

 ' prsecervicalis. 



FIG. 713. Profile view of the head of a human embryo, estimated as twenty-seven days old. (After His.) 



and the maxillary process. In front of the mandibular arch is a pentagonal 

 depression, termed the oral sinus or stomodceum, since it forms the future mouth. 

 It is bounded anteriorly by a median process, the fronto-nasal process, and laterally 

 by the maxillary processes (Fig. 714), and will be referred to again. 



These parts must now be considered with a little more detail. 



The fronto-nasal process covers the forebrain and contains the coalesced portion 

 of the trabeculse cranii ; it consists of a central or mid-frontal process and two 

 lateral parts. By the invagination 



of the olfactory pit8, which COm- Cerebral hemisphere. 



municate below with the cavity of 

 the mouth, each lateral portion is 

 subdivided into an outer and an 

 inner nasal process the latter 

 having been termed by His the 

 processus globularis. The lateral 

 nasal process is separated from the 

 maxillary process by a groove which 

 extends from the eye to the olfactory 

 pit; this is the rudiment of the 

 lachrymal duct (Figs. 714, 715, and 



Fronto-nasal-^ 

 process. 



Stomodseum. - - 



Lateral nasal process. 



Eye. 



-Process MS globularis. 

 Maxillary process. 



Mandibular arch. 

 Hyo-mandibular cleft. 



FIG. 714. Under surface of the head of a human embryo, 

 about twenty-nine days old. (After His.) 



716). The globular processes are 

 prolonged backward as plates, termed the natal lamina- ; these laminae are a 

 some distance apart, but, gradually approaching, they ultimately fuse and form th 

 nasal septum, while the globular processes themselves meet in the middle line and form 

 the prsemaxillse and central part of the upper lip (Fig. 717). The depressed part of 



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