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. [ MP:0009903 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_nasal_prominence ]
Synonyms: medial nasal process prominentia nasalis medialis medial-nasal process
Term information
- FMA:295858
- EMAPA:16808
- EHDAA:4792
- VHOG:0000804
- SCTID:308877001
- EHDAA2:0001076
- Wikipedia:Medial_nasal_prominence
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