Growth of the kidney in the normal human fetus during early gestation.
The weights of kidney obtained from 200 presumably normal human abortuses of postconceptional gestational ages between 6 and 17 weeks were measured. The weight of the normal human fetal kidney increases in an exponential manner between 6 and 14 weeks gestation. Thereafter, the rate of increase in weight is slower. No significant differences were found between the weights of kidneys of male and female abortuses of 7-15 weeks postconceptional gestational ages.
D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000196:embryology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size