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medial nasal prominence
- Term ID
- UBERON:0004068
- Synonyms
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- medial nasal process
- medial nasal swelling
- medial-nasal process
- Definition
- The central area of the two limbs of a horseshoe-shaped mesenchymal swelling that lie medial to the olfactory placode or pit in the future nasal region of the embryo; it joins with the ipsilateral maxillary prominence in the formation of half of the upper jaw, and the nasal tip and philtrum of the upper lip develop from it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_nasal_prominence
- References
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- EHDAA2:0001076
- EHDAA:4792
- EMAPA:16808
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