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A 55-year-old man has noted sharp pain in his right lower extremity for the past 2 months. MR imaging of his spine shows impingement on a spinal nerve root by a herniated central part of a structure located between L5 and S1.
From which of the following embryonic derivatives does this herniated structure most likely arise?