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ovary
  1. (anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
  2. (botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Then the doctor would surgically extract the eggs from the ovary, fertilize them, and reinsert them into the womb.”
      “The vase life of the flowers with part of the ovary tissue remaining on the receptacle was similar to that of the control flowers.”
      “The reduction in cell number of the female gametophyte and embryo allows a large number of megasporogenesis events to occur in the ovary.”
ovariohysterectomy
  1. surgical removal of the ovaries and uterus
  2. Examples:
    1. “At the doses administered, a CRI of dexmedetomidine reduced isoflurane requirements in anesthetized cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy.”
      “Platelet aggregation and bleeding time were measured before and 52 h after ovariohysterectomy.”
      “Multimodal technique is a superior method of treating pain after feline ovariohysterectomy.”
ovariole
  1. (zoology) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For individual mosquito the ovariole with highest number of dilatation was considered.”
      “Oogenesis pattern and type of ovariole of the parasitoid Palmistichus elaeisis.”
      “We discuss the multiple convergent evolutions in ovariole number and the potential link between a reduction of ovariole number and troglobiomorphism in a phylogenetic context.”
ovariosalpingectomy
  1. Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
ovariotomist
  1. (surgery) Someone who performs a ovariotomy. [from 19th c.]
ovaritis
  1. (pathology) inflammation of the ovary
  2. Examples:
    1. “Physicians in the United States commonly used this herb in the mid-nineteenth century for chronic ovaritis.”
      “In the doctor's office women usually heard that they suffered from ovaritis.”
      “On the basis of these changes, the disease was designated duck hemorrhagic ovaritis.”
ovariectomy
  1. (medicine) Surgical removal of one or both ovaries.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Here we report the influence of ovariectomy on adrcnocortical cell function from S. virgatus.”
      “Bilateral mastectomies or ovariectomy are recommended preventative measures, neither of which is a complete barrier to cancer development.”
      “Unilateral ovariectomy in rabbits doubles the ovulation rate in the remaining ovary and the adjacent uterine horn is crowded with embryos.”
ovarioscopy
  1. (surgery) ovarian endoscopy
ovariotomy
  1. (surgery) A surgical removal of an ovary.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When intestines are accidentally opened in the course of an ovariotomy they require the most careful attention.”
      “The risk of intestinal obstruction after bilateral ovariotomy is greater than after hysterectomy.”
      “Thus an expected ovariotomy may terminate as a Csarean section, or as a hysterectomy.”
ovarialgia
  1. Pain of the ovary.
ovarium
  1. An ovary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Each of these cavities terminates in a fallopian tube, which opens into the capsule of an ovarium.”
      “What would the floriculturist care for any change in the structure of the ovarium or of the ovules?”
      “This however is not the case in respect to the dropsy of the ovarium, or in the hydrocele.”
ovariosalpingectomies
ovariohysterectomies
  1. plural of ovariohysterectomy
ovariotomists
  1. plural of ovariotomist
ovariectomies
ovarioscopies
  1. plural of ovarioscopy
ovariotomies
ovarioles
  1. plural of ovariole
ovaria
  1. plural of ovarium
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have had opportunities of examining the ovaria with care in several cases of twins, and always found two corpora lutea.”
ovaries
  1. plural of ovary
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At laparoscopy, multinodular tumor implants on the surfaces of the ovaries were observed, and a biopsy was performed.”
      “One, a 20 year old female, had deposits in the brain, liver, lung, bone marrow, adrenal glands, and ovaries.”
      “It was also possible that drugs used to stimulate ovaries could trigger chromosomal abnormalities.”
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