Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A diploid cell from which an egg or ovum develops by meiosis. A primary oocyte divides to produce a polar body and a secondary oocyte, which divides again to produce the ovum and another polar body.
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- noun cytology A cell that develops into an egg or
ovum ; a femalegametocyte .
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- noun a female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions
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Examples
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Egg freezing is more technically known as oocyte cryopreservation, a technology by which a woman's eggs are surgically removed from her ovaries and frozen until she is ready to use them.
Why I Froze My Eggs 2009
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A unique look into laboratory techniques for egg freezing, also known as oocyte cyropreservation.
WN.com - Articles related to FEATURE : Historic Manila wants tourists to see past the decay 2010
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A unique look into laboratory techniques for egg freezing, also known as oocyte cyropreservation.
WN.com - Articles related to FEATURE : Historic Manila wants tourists to see past the decay 2010
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A unique look into laboratory techniques for egg freezing, also known as oocyte cyropreservation.
WN.com - Articles related to FEATURE : Historic Manila wants tourists to see past the decay 2010
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What inspired him to take on this challenge was his research on how hormones control critical ovarian functions in mice, such as oocyte maturation and ovulation.
British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize for medicine Alok Jha 2010
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It might also have a place in other assisted reproductive techniques such as oocyte transfer and gamete intrafallopian transfer (combining eggs and sperm outside the body, then placing them in the fallopian tubes to achieve fertilization), he said.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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Reproductive Sciences at Yale, said: "When a woman undergoes in vitro fertilisation, she receives medication called Follicle Stimulating Hormone to produce more than one oocyte, which is the normal production each month.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Title: Prevention of maternal aging-associated oocyte aneuploidy and meiotic spindle defects in mice by dietary and genetic strategies
For a Mother's Touch, Skip the Text Messages Ann Lukits 2011
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The study also identified a gene that regulates oocyte quality.
For a Mother's Touch, Skip the Text Messages Ann Lukits 2011
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And most of us have probably ingested meat and dairy products from livestock cloned by natural reproduction (monozygotic siblings), mechanical embryo-splitting or even nuclear transfer from an embryonic donor cell into an enucleated oocyte.
The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn Henry I. Miller 2010
avivamagnolia commented on the word oocyte
~ A cell from which an egg develops.
~ The developing female gamete before completion and release.
~ The female germ cells in stages between the prophase of the 1st maturation division, and the completion of the 2nd maturation division.
January 18, 2009