Continuous with the dorsal end of the first pharyngeal arch, and growing forward from its cephalic border, is a triangular process, the maxillary prominence, the ventral extremity of which is separated from the mandibular arch by a ">"-shaped notch.
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File:Gray23.png|Human embryo from thirty-one to thirty-four days File:Gray44.png|Under surface of the head of a human embryo about twenty-nine days old. File:Gray947.png|The head and neck of a human embryo thirty-two days old, seen from the ventral surface. ==References==