Alar plate
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Embryology: Alar plate | ||
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Diagram to illustrate the alar and basal laminæ of brain vesicles. | ||
aged about four and a half weeks. | ||
Latin | l. alaris | |
Gray's | subject #184 735 | |
Carnegie stage | 13 | |
Precursor | neural tube | |
Dorlands/Elsevier | l_02/12475865 |
The alar plate (or alar lamina) is a neural structure in the embryonic nervous system, part of the dorsal side of neural tube, that involves the communication of general somatic and general visceral sensory impulses. It later becomes a sensory region and part of the spinal cord.