Embryonic Development from Cell Development to Week 8 (part of a set with a white baby)

Image Description:

The developing embryo from fertilisation to week 8. Showing the embryogenesis process which is the process by which the embryo forms and develops. The illustrations created by a medical illustrator with emphasis on the depiction of clinical accuracy. Each stage researched and these illustrations show the fetal (foetal) development from the date of conception. Alternatively, a clinician calculates a pregnancy of a mothers estimated due date, counting ahead 40 weeks from the start of their patients last period. This works out usually as a pregnancy dated two weeks ahead of actual conception.  

In this order from the top and left to right, fertilization, (fertilisation), implantation of a blastocyst within the womb lining of the womb, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8.  Image File Sizes:

Anatomy Visible in the Medical Illustration Includes:

Embryogenesis, embryo, cell, cells, division, zygote, cleavage, blastocyst, bilaminar disc formation, disc, implantation, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, foetus, fetus, fetal, baby.

Image created by:

Joanna Culley