Diagram to illustrate the alar and basal laminæ of brain vesicles.
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| colspan="2" |aged about four and a half weeks.
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|l. alaris
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|System
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|Carnegie stage
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|Days
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|Precursor
|colspan="2"|neural tube
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|Gives rise to
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[l_02/12475865]
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The alar plate (or alar lamina) is a neural structure in the embryonic nervous system, part of the dorsal side of neural tube, that involves the communication of general somatic and general visceral sensory impulses. It later becomes a sensory region and part of the spinal cord.