Chick - 33 Hours



  • 13 pairs of somites are formed.

  • Lengthening of foregut and sub cephalic pocket.

  • Hindgut appears as the cavity of the tail fold.

  • Development of neural tube and neural pore. A rhomboid like depression called sinus rhomboidatis is seen.

  • Anterior region of the neural tube has begun to expand into 3 brain region.

  • Optic vesicles develop as a pair of evagination from the lateral wall of prosencephalon.

  • Neural crest cells are formed.

  • Development of heart.

  • Outer limit of area vasculosa development into sinus terminalis, a circular blood vessel.