Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mesentery of the ovary; a fold of peritoneum holding the ovary in place, and representing in the female the mesorchium of the male.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The portion of the broad
ligament of theuterus that covers theovaries .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mesovarium.
Examples
-
At first the mesonephros and genital ridge are suspended by a common mesentery, but as the embryo grows the genital ridge gradually becomes pinched off from the mesonephros, with which it is at first continuous, though it still remains connected to the remnant of this body by a fold of peritoneum, the mesorchium or mesovarium (Fig. 1111).
-
Each anastomoses freely in the mesosalpinx, with the uterine artery, giving some branches to the uterine tube, and others which traverse the mesovarium and enter the hilum of the ovary.
-
The mesovarian border is straight and is directed toward the obliterated umbilical artery, and is attached to the back of the broad ligament by a short fold named the mesovarium.
-
At first the germinal glands of both sexes lie deep inside the ventral cavity, at the inner edge of the primitive kidneys (Figures 2.386 g and 2.392 k), attached to the vertebral column by a short mesentery (mesorchium in the male, mesovarium in the female).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.