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Stage 1 2 3
Age in days
Size in mm
Carnegie-
Stage 4 5a 5b
Age in days
Carnegie-
Stage 5c 6 7
Age in days
Carnegie-
Stage 8 9 10
Age in
days
Carnegie-
Stage 11 12 13
Age in
days
2.5 4.5 mm 3 5 mm 4 6 mm
Size in Closure of the rostral Closure of the caudal Buds of the lower
mm neuropore neuropore extremities
Nasal placode Third pharyngeal arch Lens placode
Descriptio Ophthalmic vesicle Buds of the upper Fourth pharyngeal
n
13 - 20 somites extremities arch
Cervical sinus More than 30 somites
21-29 somites
Carnegie-
Stage 14 15 16
Age in
days
5 7 mm 7 9 mm 8 11 mm
Size in Augmented cephalo- Auditory primordium Pigmentation of the
mm cervical flexure Hand plate eye
Cerebellar primordium Genesis of the foot
Descriptio Visible ocular plate
n
primordium Physiologic umbilical
Sixth pharyngeal arch hernia
Carnegie-
Stage 17 18 19
Age in
days
11 14 mm 13 17 mm 16 18 mm
Size in External acoustic The eyelids arise Lengthening and
mm meatus Toe primordium straightening
Formation of the Nasal primordium of the trunk
Descriptio interdigital zones Gonadal gender can External acoustic
n
Atrophy of the be determined meatus
embryonic tail in male embryos Rupture of the cloacal
membrane
Carnegie-
Stage 20 21 22
Age in
days
18 22 mm 22 24 mm 23 28 mm
Size in Separated fingers Subcutaneous vessel Development of the
mm Gonadal gender network of the head eyelids and the
determinable spreads out external ear canal
Descriptio in female embryos Hands and feet come Tragus and antitragus
n
closer and touch each Nasal septum
other Secondary palate
Carnegie-
Stage 23
Age in
days
Size in
mm 27 31 mm
The head makes 50%
Descriptio
of the embryo's size
n Chin
Nasal pit
Development of the
external genital
primordium
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