Development of the intestinal loop
The midgut is suspended from the dorsal body wall
by a short mesentery and its derivatives receive their blood supply
from the cranial mesenteric artery. It consists of cranial and caudal
limbs.
Due to rapid growth, a loop of midgut develops and
projects into the extra-embryonic coelom (physiological herniation).
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