Explore: Embryo And Fetal Development

prenatal development is also called antenatal development. The development of the human embryo follows fertilization, and continues as fetal development. By

proliferation and differentiation, and the resulting embryo then implants in the uterus, where the embryo continues development through a fetal stage until

The fetal membranes are the four extraembryonic membranes, associated with the developing embryo, and fetus in humans and other mammals. They are the

of prenatal development after organogenesis of the fetus generally results in the similar process of fetal resorption or miscarriage. Embryo loss often

vertebrate embryos. The tubular heart quickly differentiates into the truncus arteriosus, bulbus cordis, primitive ventricle, primitive atrium, and the sinus

which the embryo and later fetus develops in amniotes. It is a thin but tough transparent pair of membranes that hold a developing embryo (and later fetus)

the posterior end of the embryo they cross to the medial side of these ducts, and thus come to lie side by side between and behind the latter—the four

published two studies regarding human embryos developing for thirteen days within an ecto-uterine environment. In 2017, fetal researchers at the Children's Hospital

that develops from an embryo. Following the embryonic stage, the fetal stage of development takes place. Prenatal development is a continuum, with no

The umbilical vein is a vein present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta into the growing fetus. The umbilical vein