Term Name: | medial nasal prominence |
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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 |
Ontology: | Cell Ontology [UBERON:0004068] |