Yolk sac
Membranous sac attached to an embryo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The yolk sac is a membranous sac attached to an embryo, formed by cells of the hypoblast layer of the bilaminar embryonic disc. This is alternatively called the umbilical vesicle by the Terminologia Embryologica (TE), though yolk sac is far more widely used. In humans, the yolk sac is important in early embryonic blood supply,[1] and much of it is incorporated into the primordial gut during the fourth week of embryonic development.[2]
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Yolk sac | |
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Details | |
Carnegie stage | 5b |
Days | 9 |
Precursor | Endoderm |
Identifiers | |
Latin | vesicula umbilicalis; saccus vitellinus |
MeSH | D015017 |
TE | sac_by_E5.7.1.0.0.0.4 E5.7.1.0.0.0.4 |
FMA | 87180 |
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