Profile view of a human embryo estimated at twenty or twenty-one days old. (Hindgut labeled at lower left.)
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| colspan="2" |Primitive kidney and bladder, from a reconstruction. (Hindgut labeled at upper right.)
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|Latin
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|System
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|Carnegie stage
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|Precursor
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|Gives rise to
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[e_11/12337302]
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Hindgut (or epigaster) is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal. It includes the descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum, and sometimes the large intestine.
