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Relating to the ovaries.
Examples of ovarian in a Sentence
The same woman who would die in twenty-three years from ovarian cancer.
The two long ovarian sacs communicate with each other by a transverse bridge before uniting to form the terminal canal.
Into each ovarian sac behind the transverse junction opens a slender tube, which is greatly coiled, and, in its turn, opens into a spherical "spermathecal sac."
The sole difference is therefore that in Eudrilus the ovarian sac gives rise to a tube which bifurcates, one branch meeting a corresponding branch of the other ovary of the pair, while the second branch reaches the exterior.
In the former, the duct, leading from the ovarian sac, and swelling along its course into the spherical sac, the "spermatheca," is highly suggestive of the oviduct and receptaculum of the Eudrilidae.
This is clearly the same process in essence as that of the formation of a vitellogenous gland from part of the primitive ovary, or of the feeding of an ovarian egg by the absorption of neighbouring potential eggs; but here the period at which the sacrifice of one egg to another takes place is somewhat late.
This by successive divisions forms a group of four to eight cells, which subsequently pass through the blastoderm, and dividing into two groups become symmetrically arranged and surrounded by the rudiments of the ovarian tubes.
On the inner surface of both valves several well-defined muscular, vascular and ovarian impressions are observable; they form either indentations of greater or less size and depth, or occur as variously shaped projections.
Should this take place into a closed gland space it will give rise to cysts, which may attain a great size, as is seen in the ovarian adenomata.
To James Matthews Duncan (1826-1890) we chiefly owe a saner and broader comprehension of the relative importance of the local and the general conditions which enter into the causation of uterine and ovarian disorders.
The solitary ovule springs erect from the base of the ovarian cavity.
In the female, each ovary consists of a large number of ovarian tubes, in which swollen chambers containing the egg-cells alternate with smaller chambers enclosing nutrient material.
Deep to these is the ovarian stroma, composed of fibrous tissue, and embedded in it are numerous nests of epithelial cells, the Graafian follicles, in various stages of development.
That end of each which lies in front of the ovary is called the fimbriated extremity, and has a number of fringes (fimbriae) hanging from it; one of the largest of these is the ovarian fimbria and is attached to the upper or tubal pole of the ovary.
In McDowell Park there is a monument to the memory of Dr Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), who after 1795 lived in Danville, and is famous for having performed in 1809 the first entirely successful operation for the removal of an ovarian tumour.
In the Graptoloidea certain lateral and vesicular appendages of the polypary in the Lasiograptidae have been looked upon as connected with the reproductive system; and in the umbrella-shaped synrhabdosomes already referred to, the common centre is surrounded by a ring of what have been regarded as ovarian capsules.
The ovaries always contain spermatozoa, some of which project through the ovarian wall into the body cavity.
The ovule is usually contained in an ovary, and all plants in which the ovule is so enclosed are termed angiospermous; but in Coniferae and Cycadaceae it has no proper ovarian covering, and is called naked, these orders being denominated gymnospermous.
Another avenue of nanotechnology research is to develop nanometre-sized contrast agents with ultrasound to diagnose ovarian cancer.
Nearly 7,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year in the UK.
The patients who relapse are regrettably many for only 25% of the total ovarian population present with the highly curable stage 1 disease.
Only 24% understood that treatment for ovarian cancer usually was not curative.
An ovarian cyst is a fluid filled sac which develops in an ovary.
As the pain did not settle she underwent laparoscopy and a left ovarian cystectomy.
Laparoscopic ovarian diathermy is a safe and effective alternative to ovulation induction with gonadotropins.
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) OHSS is a medical event distinct from uncomplicated ovarian enlargement.
In females, FSH causes early maturation of ovarian follicles.
Our data suggest that the expression of CAR is one of the most important prerequisites for successful adenovirus-mediated gene therapy of ovarian cancer.
Ovarian tumors are common in female gerbils with poor reproductive performance.
Women with invasive ovarian tumors were no more likely to have been exposed to any ovulation induction agents.
It has been suggested that the milk sugar lactose is a risk factor for ovarian cancer.
We are collaborating on an exhaustive molecular characterisation of cancer cell lines to identify novel oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes in ovarian cancer.
By capitalizing on work in cattle, maturing oocytes from biopsied or post-mortem ovarian tissue may provide a way of enhancing their supply.
An oophorectomy carried out in the absence of ovarian cancer is known as a risk-reducing bilateral oophorectomy or prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy.
Ovarian germ cell tumors occur in young women in whom fertility preservation is of great concern.
They have titles on primary and secondary breast cancer, breast reconstruction, breast screening, ovarian cancer and cancer genetics.
What is the role of the ovarian hormone relaxin (RLX) in non-pregnant women?
Hormone treatment Doctors have been looking at the hormone treatment tamoxifen to treat advanced ovarian cancer.
We reviewed our experience with a prospective ongoing protocol for the treatment of benign ovarian teratomas, between January 1990 and December 1996.
Lord Lister's discoveries brought these new methods to bear with a certainty and a celerity previously undreamed of; and many visceral maladies, such as visceral ulcers, disease of the pancreas, stone of the kidney or gall-bladder, perityphlitis, ovarian dropsy, which in the earlier part of the 19th century were either fatal or crippling, are now taken promptly and safely in hand, and dealt with successfully.
We also showed here the first direct evidence that putative SPARC receptors are present on ovarian epithelial cells.
When she develops ovarian cancer and embarks on a debilitating regimen of chemotherapy, she finds herself not in control for the first time.
During lactation, the secretion of prolactin can entail a poor prognosis to ovarian stimulation.
Serous ovarian cancers account for about 40 percent of ovarian cancers.
There have been a few studies of tamoxifen for women who have advanced ovarian cancer that has n't responded to chemotherapy treatment.
Two cases of breast carcinoma and two cases of ovarian carcinoma were also included as positive controls in the telomerase assay.
One trial in ovarian cancer tested thalidomide in combination with carboplatin chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer.
It has been known for sixty years that removing part of these ovaries surgically (wedge resection) can restore normal ovarian function.
She'll never have an unwanted pregnancy, or develop ovarian or uterine cancer.
The benefits of ginger root are attributed to gingerol (a chemical thought to prevent the growth of certain cancer cells and destroy ovarian cancer cells).