Biology:Lateral lingual swelling

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Lateral lingual swelling
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Floor of pharynx of human embryo about twenty-six days old.
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Floor of pharynx of human embryo of about the end of the fourth week.
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Latintuberculum linguale laterale
Anatomical terminology

The two lateral lingual swellings or distal tongue buds form from the first pharyngeal arch, in the fifth week of embryogenesis following the development of the median tongue bud in the fourth week. These swellings grow downwards and towards each other covering the median tongue bud. Their line of fusion is marked by the median sulcus of the tongue.[1] They will form the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and their boundary with the hypopharyngeal eminence (which will form the posterior one-third of the tongue is marked by the terminal sulcus.[1]

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Larsen, William J. (2001). Human embryology (3 ed.). Philadelphia, Pa.: Churchill Livingstone. pp. 372–373. ISBN 0-443-06583-7. 

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