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Ovum   /ˈoʊvəm/   Listen
Ovum

noun
(pl. L. ova, E. ovums)
1.
The female reproductive cell; the female gamete.  Synonym: egg cell.



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"Ovum" Quotes from Famous Books



... is ripening, the womb is preparing to receive it. This preparation consists of a reinforced blood supply brought to its lining. If fertilization takes place, the fertilized ovule or ovum will cling to the lining of the womb and there gather its nourishment. If fertilization does not take place, the ovum passes out of the body and the uterus throws off its surplus blood supply. This is called the menstrual period. ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger

... the germ. About the middle of the eighteenth century, Caspar Friedrich Wolff discovered the true development; but his work was ignored, and it was only fifty years later that modern embryology began to work on the right line. K.E. von Baer made it clear that the fertilised ovum divides into a group of cells, and that the various organs of the body are developed from these layers of cells, in the ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... different members, however, of the family present, as Schiodte remarks, "a long series of forms exhibiting a gradual transition from Hippoglossus pinguis, which does not in any considerable degree alter the shape in which it leaves the ovum, to the soles, which are ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Ovum" :   egg, ovulate, fertilized ovum, gamete, ovule, egg cell, ootid, female reproductive system



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