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SKELETAL SYSTEM
By
Prof Dr Shaista Ali
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
● Enumerate the sources of development of skeletal system
● Narrate the segmentation of paraxial mesoderm
● Enumerate different parts of somites and give their derivatives
● Explain the events in the formation of the vertebra
● Discuss the development of intervertebral disc
● Comment on the chondrification and ossification centers of
developing vertebra
SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT
The skeletal system develops
from
Paraxial mesoderm
Lateral plate (parietal layer)
mesoderm
Neural crest cells
AXIAL AND APPENDICULAR SKELETON
SEGMENTATION OF
PARAXIAL MESODERM