Chick embryo head showing bone & cartilage

  • Dr Rachel Moore
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Chick embryo head showing bone & cartilage. Dr Rachel Moore. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Head of an embryonic day 14 chick head stained with alcian blue and alizarin red to show cartilage (blue) and bone (red) development. At this stage there is already a considerable amount of bone in the jaw and the parietal bone, situated behind the eye, is now starting to form. The cartilaginous rings surrounding the trachea are also clearly visible.

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