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 MP:0009903 ]
Synonyms: medial nasal process prominentia nasalis medialis medial-nasal process
Term information
- FMA:295858
- EHDAA:4792
- EHDAA2:0001076
- EMAPA:16808
- VHOG:0000804
- Wikipedia:Medial_nasal_prominence
- SCTID:308877001
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Term relations
- embryonic nasal process
- part of some frontonasal prominence
- develops from some frontonasal prominence
- in lateral side of some embryonic head