SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

School of Nursing
Maternal and Child Health Nursing

Organs arising
In
Different germ layers

Lara, Kit B.

I. GEM LAYERS:
II.

III.

ntoderm gives rise to the epithelial

lining of the gastrointestinal and

respiratory tracts; the parenchyma of the
tonsils, the liver, the thymus, the thyroid,
the parathyroids, and the pancreas; the

epithelial lining of the urinary bladder

and urethra; and the epithelial lining of
the tympanic cavity, tympanic antrum,

XIV.

and auditory tube.

IV.
V.

esoderm gives rise to connective

tissue, cartilage, and bone; striated and

smooth muscles; the heart walls, blood
and lymph vessels and cells; the kidneys;
the gonads (ovaries and testes) and
genital ducts; the serous membranes
lining the body cavities; the spleen; and
the suprarenal (adrenal) cortices.

VI.
VII.

ctoderm gives rise to the central

nervous system (the brain and spinal

cord); the peripheral nervous system;
the sensory epithelia of the eye, ear, and
nose; the epidermis and its appendages
(the nails and hair); the mammary
glands; the hypophysis; the
subcutaneous glands; and the enamel of
the teeth.

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XI.
XII.
XIII.

XV.
XVI.

I.

Entoderm

EPITHEL
IUM OF
GI
TRACT
XVII.
XVIII.

LIVER

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XIX.
XX.

LIVER
PHARYN
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XXVIII.
THYROI
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TRACHE
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A
XXXIII.
BRONC
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XXXV.HI
XXXVI.
LUNGS
TONSIL
S
PARATH
YROIDS

XXI.
XXII.

URACH
US

XXIII.

URINARY
XXIV.
XXV.
BLADDER
XXXVII.

XXXVIII.
TYMPANIC
XXXIX.
CAVITY
PHARYNG
XL. O
TYMPANIC
TUBE

Mesoderm

LVI.
LVII.

XLI.
LVIII.

XLII.

SKELETON
HEAD AND
BODY
MUSCLE
TISSUE
CARDIOVAS
XLIII.
CULAR
XLIV.
SYSTEM
XLV.
LYMPHATIC
XLVI.
URINARY
XLVII.
SPLEEN
XLVIII.
ADRENAL
XLIX.
CORTEX
GENITAL
L.
LI.
SYSTEM
GONADS
LII.
DUCTS
LIII.
ACCESORY
LIV.
GLAND
LV.
DERMIS
DENTIN OF
TEET

LXXII.

LXXIII.

LIX.
CARDIOVAS
LX. CULAR
LXI. SYSTEM
LXII.
Heart
LXIII.
Blood
LYMPHATIC
LXIV.
vessels
SYSTEM
arteries,
LXV.
Spleen
capillaries,
LXVI.
vein Tymus
LXVII.
Lymphoid
LXVIII.
tissues
Appendix
LXIX.
Thoracic
LXX.
duct
LXXI.
Inguinal

Ectoderm

lymph
nodes
Thoracic
duct
tymus

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LXXV.

LXXVII.

LXXIX.

NERVO
US
TISSUE
NE
U
R
AL
TU
BE
C
N
NERVOUS TISSUE
S
RE
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A
P
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PI
TU
CNS
SP IT
IN AR
AL Y
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CR
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LXXX.

LXXXI.

EPIDERMIS
HAIR
NAILS
MAMMARY
GLANDLXXXII.
ANT.
PITUITARY
GLAND
TEETN
ENAMEL
EYE LENS

LXXXIII.

LXXXIV.

LXXXV.

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XCII.

LXXXVII.

LXXXVIII.

XCIII.
XCIV.
XCV.

References:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/boo
ks/NBK10107/

Tortora, Gerard J., (2013). Principles

of Anatomy and Physiology.13TH Edition
New York, NY: HarperCollins College, 1996.
Adele Pilliteri. (2007). Maternal and

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Child Health Nursing. 5th Edition.
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