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Definition of Ovaries
1. ovary [n] - See also: ovary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovaries
Literary usage of Ovaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"From the constants in the foregoing sections there can be little doubt concerning
the fact of a selective elimination of the ovaries of Staphylea during ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"He frankly admits that in the presence of pus in the Fallopian tubes ex- section
of the tube is the preferable procedure, although ovaries apparently normal ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Immersed aquatics, with flat linear leaves : ovaries solitary or distinct, ...
Naked ovaries and stamens alternate in 2 vertical rows on the inner side of a ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"THE ovaries. to them there is frequently one or more small vesicles floating on
... The ovaries are of a grayish-pink color, and present either a smooth or ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"Olshausen reported four cases of cysts of the retained ovaries ... Although a
warm advocate of retaining one or both ovaries, he added he could report ..."
6. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"THE ovaries are two bodies, in shape somewhat like an almond, situated in the pelvic
... Before birth the ovaries are on a level with the iliac fossa, ..."
7. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"This condition of the uterus may exist notwithstanding the presence of follicles
in the ovaries which are near maturity. The latter do, therefore, ..."
8. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"DISEASES OF THE ovaries. Examination.—Several methods of examination are ...
(c) Direct inspection of the ovaries can be made with but very little danger. ..."
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