Lateral nasal prominence
Template:Infobox Embryology Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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[1] )
Pathology
Failure to fuse can cause a cleft lip.
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.
