Surely you have wondered on more than one occasion how are the first days of life of the future baby in the womb. The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo is a website that offers multiple three-dimensional images of human embryos in the different stages of development, until approximately two months.
In addition to high-quality images, there are 3-dimensional cartoons, videos that will discover how the embryo is growing in the womb and complemented with explanations of how its organs are formed, the evolution from the previous stage (in English ) ...
The photographs appear impressively detailed, and include the scale reference to know that we are seeing in full color and in large size an embryo of just a few millimeters.
This site is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development in the United States), responsible for producing and making available to the public through the Internet these reference images of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance.
The images are classified following the stages of Carnegie, a standardized 23-stage system used to provide a unified chronology of vertebrate embryo development. It covers only the first 60 days of development; at that point the term "embryo" is generally replaced by the term "fetus."
Stage 23 corresponds to about 55-60 days of gestation. In each Carnegie stage we have the equivalence in days, always approximate. In this last stage described the embryos have a length of between 20 and 30 millimeters.
The distinction of the subdivisions of the upper and lower limbs is already appreciated, the forearms appear at or above the level of the shoulders and the external genitals are well developed, but not always enough to distinguish the sex of the embryo.
The collection of images of the embryo in The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo It is intended to serve students, researchers, doctors and the general public interested in the study and teaching of human development. Surely among that audience there are also many future parents who want to know how the embrace evolves in its first weeks.
Official Site | The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo
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