primitive pit

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primitive pit,

a minute indentation at the anterior end of the primitive groove in the early developing embryo. It lies posterior to the primitive node and probably functions as an opening into the notochordal canal in humans and higher animals and into the neurenteric canal in lower animals.

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notochordal canal
sacrococcygeal teratoma

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