LF:BPEM011p Embryology - lecture - Course Information

BPEM011p Embryology - lecture

Extent and Intensity

1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

MUDr. Irena Lauschová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Miroslava Sedláčková, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. MUDr. Miroslava Sedláčková, CSc.

Timetable

Fri 13:00–13:50 F01B1/122

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Midwife (programme LF, B-OS)

Course objectives

This course gives basic informations about human prenatal development with accentuation of general embryology (gametogenesis, fertilization, cleavage, implantation, development of fetal membranes, placenta and umbilical cord, origin of multiple pregnancies). Embryology provides a theoretical basis to understand mechanisms of origin of congenital malformations. In special part student will obtain informations about development of heart, nervous, digestive, respiratory, urinary and reproductive systems including most serious or most frequent congenital malformations.

Syllabus

• 1. Embryology - definition. The object and the significance of the embryology, its correlation with other branches of medicine. The phases of the human ontogeny. Teratology – critical periods for the origin of congenital anomalies.
• 2. Human gametes - their structure and development, regulation of gametogenesis (ovarian and menstrual cycles).
• 3. Fertilization and cleavage, blastocyst, implantation. Yolk and amniotic sac.
• 4. The development of the germ disc: origin of the intraembryonic mesoderm and notogenesis (development of the chorda dorsalis). Development of external form of the embryo and fetus (including development of limbs).
• 5. Fetal membranes, development of placenta and umbilical cord. Structure and function of the placenta. Anomalies of the placenta. Origin of multiple pregnancies and arrangement of fetal membranes.
• 6. Lenght of pregnancy, calculation of the date of parturition. Intrauterine fetal growth, monthly position of the uterus during pregnancy. Presentation, position and posture of fetus. Marks of mature and full-term fetus.
• 7. The development of cardiovascular system – primitive blood circulation, development of the heart.
• 8. Fetal blood circulation and changes after birth. An overview of congenital malformations of heart.
• 9. Pharyngeal apparatus. Development of face, oral and nasal cavities. Development of tongue. Clefts (cheilo-, gnatho-, palatoschisis).
• 10. An overview of the digestive system – primitive gut and its derivatives. An overview of the respiratory system (respiratory passages and lung, maturity of lung).
• 11. Development of urinary system.
• 12. Development of reproductive system.
• 13. Development of nervous system and the eye.
• 14. Consultations.

Literature

• ČECH, Svatopluk and Pavel TRÁVNÍK. Základy embryologie člověka (Basic Human Embryology). První-dotisk. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 114 pp. ISBN 80-210-0562-9. info
• MALÍNSKÝ, Jiří and Václav LICHNOVSKÝ. Přehled embryologie člověka v obrazech. 2. přeprac. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2003, 176 s. ISBN 8024402432. info
• VACEK, Zdeněk. Embryologie : učebnice pro studenty lékařství a oborů všeobecná sestra a porodní asistentka. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006, 255 s. ISBN 9788024712673. info
• MOORE, K.L. and T.V.N. PERSAUD. Zrození člověka- Embryologie s klinickým zaměřením. (překlad 6. vydání). Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2002, 564 pp. ISBN 80-85866-94-3. info

Assessment methods

The course is concluded by oral examination. Student will answer 1 question of general embryology and 1 question of special embryology (development of body systems).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
  
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