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medial nasal prominence

Term ID
UBERON:0004068
Synonyms
  • medial nasal process
  • medial nasal swelling
  • medial-nasal process
  • nasomedial prominence
  • prominentia nasalis medialis
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
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