Five Week Embryo

Why does EVERYONE freak when I show them this? Anyway, I thought it was quite relevant to our Bio lessons now.

This photo of an opened oviduct with an ectopic pregnancy features a spectacularly well preserved 10-millimeter (1 cm!) embryo. It is uncommon to see any embryo at all in an ectopic, and for one to be this well preserved (and undisturbed by the prosector's knife) is quite unusual.

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