Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Differentiation. 2017 Aug 11;97:9–22. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2017.08.002

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Wholemount photos of developing human fetal female internal genitalia staged by heel-toe measurements. Note (a) increase in size and morphological complexity with time, and (b) that landmarks distinguishing the uterine corpus, cervix and vagina are subtle/non-existent. Specimens photographed with transmitted light (9, 10, 11, 13 and 15 weeks) permit visualization of internal (epithelial) organization in regions not too thick. The 10-week specimen is shown at both low and high magnifications. Red arrowheads demarcate the epithelium defining the lumen of the uterine tube. Green arrowheads define the epithelium lining the uterus. Relative sizes of specimens are not exact, but increase with age.