Term Name:	medial nasal prominence
Synonyms:	medial nasal process, medial nasal swelling, medial-nasal process, nasomedial prominence, prominentia nasalis medialis
Definition:	The central area of the two limbs of a horseshoe-shaped mesenchymal swelling that lie medial to the olfactory placode or pit in the future nasal region of the embryo; it joins with the ipsilateral maxillary prominence in the formation of half of the upper jaw, and the nasal tip and philtrum of the upper lip develop from it
Ontology:	Cell Ontology [UBERON:0004068]