part of part of develops from develops from embryonic structure somite embryonic tissue head somite UBERON:0005594 EHDAA2:0003437 EMAPA:16172 cranial somite in humans this includes somites 1-4 Somite located in the head region, caudal to the otic vesicle. They provide the epaxial and hypaxial muscles of the neck, the pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles that develop in the caudal branchial arches and the musculature of the tongue. Despite their localisation in the head, myogenic precursors from occipital somites essentially follow the trunk programmes (E. H. Walters and S. D., unpublished). during evolution, have been secondarily incorporated into the head (Gans and Northcutt, 1983) XAO:0000313 EHDAA2 has both 'head somite' and 'head somite group', with part_of and develops_from for latter occipital somite head paraxial mesoderm