Progressive expansion of the amnion from the umbilical ring ( surrounding the roots of the vitelline duct and connecting stalk ) creates a tube of amniotic membrane.
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When the myotomic downgrowths reach the ventral aspect their anterior portions, i . e . the sheaths of the recti muscles, become continuous with the tissue of the umbilical ring.
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It forms an umbilical ring of mesodermal condensation surrounding the coelomic portal, and is present in the 16 * 1 mm . embryo, but more emphatically so in the 23 mm . embryo.