Explain first to eight week of development of embryology visually with flowchart of events occurring in between and at last a master flowchart
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<h1>🧬 Human Embryology</h1>
<p class="subtitle">Visual Flowcharts of Development — Weeks 1 through 8 | Embryonic Period</p>
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<a href="#w1" style="background:#7c3aed">Week 1</a>
<a href="#w2" style="background:#1d4ed8">Week 2</a>
<a href="#w3" style="background:#0891b2">Week 3</a>
<a href="#w4" style="background:#059669">Week 4</a>
<a href="#w5" style="background:#d97706">Week 5</a>
<a href="#w6" style="background:#dc2626">Week 6</a>
<a href="#w7" style="background:#7c3aed">Week 7</a>
<a href="#w8" style="background:#0f766e">Week 8</a>
<a href="#master" style="background:#1e293b">Master Flowchart</a>
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<span class="week-badge" style="background:#7c3aed">WEEK 1</span>
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#7c3aed">Fertilization, Cleavage & Morula</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 0–7 | Ovulation → First contact with endometrium</div>
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<div class="node node-start" style="max-width:240px">🥚 Ovulation & Sperm Capacitation<br><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:0.8rem">Day 0</span></div>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 0–1</span>
Fertilization in Ampulla of Uterine Tube
<span class="note">Acrosomal reaction → Zona pellucida penetration → Cortical reaction → Zygote formed (2n = 46 chr)</span>
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<span class="day-tag">~30 hrs after fertilization</span>
First Cleavage Division
<span class="note">Mitosis within zona pellucida — cells (blastomeres) get smaller; no overall size increase</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 2</span>
2-cell → 4-cell
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<span class="day-tag">Day 3</span>
8-cell stage
<span class="note">Compaction begins; E-cadherin–catenin junctions</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 3–4</span>
Morula (12–32 cells)
<span class="note">Inner cell mass + surrounding trophoblast; enters uterine cavity</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 4–5</span>
Blastocyst Formation
<span class="note">Fluid cavity (blastocoel) appears; zona pellucida starts to thin; ICM = embryoblast; outer = trophoblast</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 5–6</span>
Zona Pellucida Hatching & Free Blastocyst
<span class="note">Blastocyst enlarges; begins approaching endometrium</span>
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<span class="key-pill" style="background:#ede9fe;border-color:#7c3aed;color:#4c1d95">📍 Site: Uterine tube → Uterus</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#ede9fe;border-color:#7c3aed;color:#4c1d95">🔑 Hippo signalling → ICM segregation</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#ede9fe;border-color:#7c3aed;color:#4c1d95">⚠️ No size increase until zona hatching</span>
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#1d4ed8">Implantation & Bilaminar Disc</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 7–14 | "Week of twos" — two layers, two cavities, two trophoblast layers</div>
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<div class="node node-start" style="max-width:260px">Free Blastocyst contacts Endometrium<br><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:0.8rem">Day 6</span></div>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 6–7</span>
Implantation Begins
<span class="note">Trophoblast differentiates → Cytotrophoblast (inner) + Syncytiotrophoblast (outer)</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 8</span>
ICM → Bilaminar Disc
<span class="note">Epiblast (columnar) + Hypoblast (cuboidal)</span>
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Amniotic Cavity forms
<span class="note">Between epiblast and cytotrophoblast</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 8–9</span>
Syncytiotrophoblast invasion
<span class="note">Lacunar networks form; erosion of maternal vessels</span>
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Umbilical Vesicle (yolk sac)
<span class="note">Primary yolk sac lined by Heuser's membrane (exocoelomic)</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 9–12</span>
Extra-embryonic Mesoderm & Coelom
<span class="note">Chorionic cavity (extra-embryonic coelom) develops; connecting stalk forms</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 13–14</span>
Primary Chorionic Villi
<span class="note">Cytotrophoblast proliferates into syncytiotrophoblast forming villi; secondary umbilical vesicle replaces primary</span>
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End of Week 2: Bilaminar Embryonic Disc established
<span class="note" style="color:#bfdbfe">hCG detected in maternal blood → basis of pregnancy test</span>
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<span class="key-pill" style="background:#dbeafe;border-color:#1d4ed8;color:#1e3a8a">🔑 Week of Twos: 2 layers, 2 cavities, 2 trophoblast layers</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#dbeafe;border-color:#1d4ed8;color:#1e3a8a">⚠️ Implantation bleeding may mimic menstruation</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#dbeafe;border-color:#1d4ed8;color:#1e3a8a">📍 Site: Posterior superior wall of uterus (commonest)</span>
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#0891b2">Gastrulation & Trilaminar Disc</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 15–21 | "Week of threes" — most critical developmental event</div>
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<div class="node node-start" style="max-width:260px">Bilaminar Disc<br><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:0.8rem">Start of Week 3</span></div>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 15–16</span>
Primitive Streak Appears
<span class="note">Caudal midline of epiblast; signals FGFs, Wnt, Tbx16, Shh; establishes cranio-caudal axis</span>
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<div class="arrow-label">Epiblast cells migrate through primitive streak (ingression)</div>
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<span class="day-tag" style="color:#059669">Ectoderm</span>
Epiblast cells remaining on surface
<span class="note">→ Skin, CNS, PNS, sense organs, neural crest</span>
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<span class="day-tag" style="color:#d97706">Mesoderm</span>
First ingressing cells displace hypoblast
<span class="note">→ Muscle, bone, CV system, kidneys, dermis</span>
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<span class="day-tag" style="color:#dc2626">Endoderm</span>
Second ingressing cells form endoderm layer
<span class="note">→ GI epithelium, respiratory tract, liver, pancreas</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 16–17</span>
Notochordal Process → Notochord
<span class="note">Primary organizer; induces neural plate; becomes nucleus pulposus in adults</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 18–20</span>
Neural Plate & Neural Folds
<span class="note">Notochord induces overlying ectoderm; neurulation begins</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 20–21</span>
Allantois & Blood Islands
<span class="note">Allantois day 16 from yolk sac; blood vessels & heart tube forming; heart beats day 21–22</span>
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End of Week 3: Trilaminar Embryonic Disc<br>Cardiovascular system — first to function
<span class="note" style="color:#a5f3fc">First missed menstrual period corresponds to this week</span>
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<span class="key-pill" style="background:#cffafe;border-color:#0891b2;color:#164e63">🔑 Gastrulation = most critical event of embryogenesis</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#cffafe;border-color:#0891b2;color:#164e63">⚠️ Teratogens maximally dangerous this week</span>
<span class="key-pill" style="background:#cffafe;border-color:#0891b2;color:#164e63">💓 Heart beats day 21–22</span>
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#059669">Folding, Somites & Neuropore Closure</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 22–28 | Flat disc → C-shaped embryo</div>
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<div class="node node-start" style="max-width:250px">Trilaminar disc with neural folds<br><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:0.8rem">Day 22</span></div>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 22–23</span>
4–12 Somites; Neural Tube Forming
<span class="note">Cephalic and lateral folding begins; embryo curves; open at rostral & caudal neuropores</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 24</span>
1st Pharyngeal Arch visible
<span class="note">Mandibular arch → mandible + maxillary prominence</span>
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Rostral Neuropore Closes
<span class="note">Failure → Anencephaly</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Day 26</span>
Caudal Neuropore Closes
<span class="note">Failure → Spina bifida</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 26–28</span>
3 Pharyngeal Arches; Upper Limb Buds appear
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<strong>Somites</strong><br>4→28 pairs by end of week 4
<br><small>→ Vertebrae, ribs, skeletal muscle, dermis</small>
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<strong>Neural Tube</strong><br>Primordium of brain + spinal cord
<br><small>Neural crest cells migrate</small>
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<strong>Heart</strong><br>Beating; detectable by Doppler
<br><small>~116 bpm; S-loop formation</small>
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<strong>Gut Tube</strong><br>Foregut & hindgut form via folding
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End of Week 4: ~4 mm CR length<br>28 somite pairs; C-shaped embryo
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#d97706">Rapid Brain Growth & Limb Development</div>
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Brain vesicles develop rapidly
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<span class="day-tag">Days 29–31</span>
Upper & Lower Limb Buds
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Lens placodes & Nasal pits visible
<span class="note">Olfactory pits; optic cups forming; auricular hillocks beginning</span>
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<span class="day-tag">End of Week 5</span>
Major organ systems forming (organogenesis underway)
<span class="note">Hematopoiesis begins in liver; mesonephros forms; CR length ~8 mm</span>
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CR length ~8 mm; embryo recognisably humanoid in head region
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<div class="week-subtitle">Days 36–42 | Hands show digital rays; external ear forming</div>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 36–38</span>
Hand plate: Digital rays appear
<span class="note">5 digital rays visible; interdigital mesenchyme (apoptosis will separate digits)</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 37–40</span>
Auricular hillocks → Auricle
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<span class="day-tag">Days 40–42</span>
Eyelids begin; nasal tip forming
<span class="note">Elbows visible; upper limbs longer; intestines herniate into umbilical cord</span>
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<span class="day-tag">End of Week 6</span>
Physiological midgut herniation into umbilical cord
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CR ~12 mm; facial features taking shape
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#7c3aed">Limb Separation & Facial Fusion</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 43–49 | Digits notching; face becomes recognizable</div>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 44–46</span>
Notches between finger digital rays
<span class="note">Interdigital apoptosis; fingers becoming distinct</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 44–48</span>
Toe digital rays; foot plate forming
<span class="note">Lower limbs follow upper by ~2 days; wrist region visible</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 47–49</span>
Ossification of upper limb bones begins
<span class="note">Primordium of skeleton; gut still in umbilical cord</span>
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Face: Eyelids, nose, auricle maturing
<span class="note">Facial prominences fuse; palate forming; external acoustic meatus visible; CR ~17 mm</span>
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CR ~17 mm; clearly human form; all limb segments visible
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<span class="key-pill" style="background:#f3e8ff;border-color:#7c3aed;color:#4c1d95">✋ Fingers separating via apoptosis</span>
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<div class="week-title" style="color:#0f766e">Completion of Embryonic Period</div>
<div class="week-subtitle">Days 50–56 | All organ systems established; embryo → fetus</div>
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Fingers separated; toes begin separating
<span class="note">Scalp vascular plexus forms a band around head; nose stubby</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 52–54</span>
Eyes heavily pigmented; eyelids formed
<span class="note">Neck region defined; head more erect; auricles close to adult shape</span>
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<span class="day-tag">Days 54–56</span>
All limb regions distinct; digits fully separated
<span class="note">Caudal eminence (tail) disappears; external genitalia developing</span>
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<strong>Musculoskeletal</strong><br>Ossification spreading; limb muscles functional
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<strong>CNS</strong><br>Cerebral cortex beginning; spinal cord mature in structure
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<strong>Heart</strong><br>4 chambers; valves; major vessels complete
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<strong>GI</strong><br>Gut tube complete; liver prominent; physiologic hernia still present
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<strong>Urogenital</strong><br>Metanephros forming; sex determination beginning
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<strong>Face</strong><br>Human appearance; eyes, ears, nose, mouth all present
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🎉 End of Embryonic Period — CR ~30 mm, ~3 cm<br>All essential organs established → Fetal period begins
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<h2 class="master-header">🗺️ Master Flowchart — Embryonic Period Weeks 1–8</h2>
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<p><strong>Fertilization → Cleavage → Morula → Blastocyst</strong><br>
Zygote formed in ampulla. Repeated mitoses within zona pellucida. 12–32 cells = morula enters uterus day 3–4. Blastocoel cavity forms → blastocyst. Zona hatches day 5–6.</p>
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<p><strong>Implantation → Bilaminar disc → Primary chorionic villi</strong><br>
Blastocyst invades endometrium. Trophoblast → cytotrophoblast + syncytiotrophoblast. ICM → epiblast + hypoblast (bilaminar disc). Amniotic cavity + umbilical vesicle. hCG produced. First missed period.</p>
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<p><strong>Gastrulation → Trilaminar disc → Notochord → Neurulation begins</strong><br>
Primitive streak establishes body axes. Epiblast ingresses → ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm. Notochord induces neural plate. Heart begins beating day 21–22. Cardiovascular system first functional system.</p>
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<p><strong>Folding → C-shape → Neuropore closure → Somites → Pharyngeal arches</strong><br>
Flat disc folds into 3D C-shaped embryo. Neural tube closes (rostral day 24–26, caudal day 26–28). 4–28 somite pairs. 3 pharyngeal arches. Upper limb buds. CR ~4 mm.</p>
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<h4>⬤ Week 5 · Days 29–35</h4>
<p><strong>Rapid brain growth → Limb buds → Sense organ placodes</strong><br>
Head grows disproportionately. 3 primary brain vesicles. Upper limbs paddle-shaped; lower limb buds present. Lens & nasal placodes visible. Liver starts hematopoiesis. CR ~8 mm.</p>
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<h4>⬤ Week 6 · Days 36–42</h4>
<p><strong>Digital rays → Auricular hillocks → Physiologic gut herniation</strong><br>
Hand plate shows 5 digital rays. Eye retinal pigmentation; nasal tip forms. Elbows visible. Intestines herniate into umbilical cord (physiologic). CR ~12 mm.</p>
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<p><strong>Interdigital apoptosis → Finger separation → Ossification begins</strong><br>
Notches between digital rays of hands; toes start separating. Ossification of upper limb bones starts. Face: eyelids, external ear, nose refine. Wrist clearly visible. CR ~17 mm.</p>
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<p><strong>Digits separated → Human appearance → End of embryonic period</strong><br>
Fingers & toes fully separated. Tail disappears. Scalp vascular plexus. All organ systems structurally established. Eyes pigmented; ears near adult shape. CR ~30 mm → Embryo becomes FETUS.</p>
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<li>▸ Epidermis, hair, nails</li>
<li>▸ Brain & spinal cord (CNS)</li>
<li>▸ Peripheral nervous system</li>
<li>▸ Retina, lens, cornea</li>
<li>▸ Inner ear</li>
<li>▸ Adenohypophysis</li>
<li>▸ Neural crest → face, teeth, adrenal medulla</li>
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<li>▸ Skeleton & cartilage</li>
<li>▸ All muscle types</li>
<li>▸ Heart & great vessels</li>
<li>▸ Blood & lymph vessels</li>
<li>▸ Kidneys & gonads</li>
<li>▸ Dermis & connective tissue</li>
<li>▸ Serous membranes (pleura, peritoneum)</li>
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<li>▸ GI tract epithelium</li>
<li>▸ Respiratory tract lining</li>
<li>▸ Liver & biliary system</li>
<li>▸ Pancreas</li>
<li>▸ Thyroid & parathyroid</li>
<li>▸ Thymus</li>
<li>▸ Bladder & urethra epithelium</li>
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<strong>Day 0</strong> — Fertilization (ampulla)
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<strong>Day 3–4</strong> — Morula enters uterus
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<strong>Day 6–7</strong> — Implantation begins
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<strong>Day 8</strong> — Bilaminar disc (epiblast + hypoblast)
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<strong>Day 14</strong> — hCG → positive pregnancy test
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<strong>Day 15</strong> — Primitive streak; gastrulation
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<strong>Day 16</strong> — Notochord; allantois
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<strong>Day 21–22</strong> — Heart begins to beat
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<strong>Day 24–26</strong> — Rostral neuropore closes
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<strong>Day 26–28</strong> — Caudal neuropore closes
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<strong>Day 28</strong> — Upper limb buds visible
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<strong>Day 56</strong> — End of embryonic period → Fetal period
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<p class="citation">Source: Moore KL, Persaud TVN, Torchia MG. <em>The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology</em>. 10th ed. Elsevier; 2016 · Sadler TW. <em>Langman's Medical Embryology</em>. 14th ed. LWW; 2019</p>
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