Lateral nasal prominence

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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.

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