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The basic morphology of the face is created between the fourth and tenth weeks of human development by the formation and fusion of five prominences: an unpaired frontonasal process plus two maxillary swellings and two mandibular swellings of the first pharyngeal arches (Fig. 3.1). All five swellings appear by the end of the fourth week around a primitive blind cavity, the stomodeum or primitive mouth, separated from the pharynx by the buccopharyngeal membrane which ruptures on day 24.
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Jankowski, R. (2013). The Primary Nose and Palate in Human Embryo Development. In: The Evo-Devo Origin of the Nose, Anterior Skull Base and Midface. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0422-4_3
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