8.5 week fetus

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8.5 week fetus:

At 8.5 weeks:

the embryo now resembles a human
facial features continue to develop
beginnings of external genitalia form
anal passage opens, but the rectal membrane is intact
circulation through the umbilical cord is well developed
long bones begin to form

Reviewed last on: 10/19/2007
Deirdre O’Reilly, MD, MPH, Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Review Provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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