Massey Lessons

These lessons in embryology and anatomy with spoken commentaries have been prepared by Dr Alex Davies at Massey University, New Zealand.

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The lessons are grouped into sections as noted below (the titles are Dr Davies' own).  If you click the "Index" button in any lesson it will take you to the index of the particular section.  To return to this page (or other parts of this website), click "Massey Lessons" on a section index, or use the back arrow or menu navigation in your browser

  • Embryology tutorials, Part 1
  • Embryonic events
  • Follicles, ovulation, fertilisation and cleavage
  • Placentas of the pig, ox, dog and horse
  • The placentas of the pig, sheep. cat and cow
  • Formation of the tubular embryo
  • Folding of the trilaminar disc and the development of the extraembryonic membranes
  • Lessons in organogenesis
  • Aortic and pulmonary arches
  • Branchial arches
  • Tooth development
  • Formation of the genital ducts
  • Further development of the genital ducts
  • Development of the liver
  • Placentas of the pig, ox, dog and horse
  • Consequences of the head fold
  • Derivatives of the branchial pouches
  • Development of the heart
  • Development of the stomach
  • Development of the intestines
  • Prelabs 2.1.7-12
  • Right atrium
  • Right ventricle
  • Left side of heart
  • Conus arteriosus
  • Left atrium and ventricle
  • Aortic valve
  • Inguinal canal
  • Cranial abdominal organs
  • Ovary
  • Penis
  • Audiograph prelabs 2.1
  • Muscles of mastication
  • Laryngopharynx
  • Retropharyngeal region
  • Larynx
  • Panniculus reflex
  • Mediastinum
  • Visceral motor control
  • Sympathetic motor control of the skin
  • Sympathetic motor control of other organs
  • Parasympathetic motor control of organs
  • A quiz on visceral motor control
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