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nasal processes

Nasal processes
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Diagram showing the regions of the adult face and neck related to the fronto-nasal process and the branchial arches.
Gray's subject #13 67
Gives rise to nose, palate, philtrum

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 processes (or nasal prominences[1] The terms "nasolateral" and "nasomedial" are also used.) The rounded lateral angles of the medial process constitute the globular processes of His.

Pathology

Failure to fuse can cause a cleft lip.

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