Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An egg-containing capsule, such as an ootheca or a Graafian follicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sac, cyst, or cell containing an ovum or ova; an ovicell, ovicyst, or ovicapsule: variously applied.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.
- noun The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Graafian follicle ; anysac containing anovum or ova. - noun The inner
layer of thefibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The afflux of blood to the uterus during the rupture of the ovisac, cannot be shown to be useful by any effort of teleological physiologists.
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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At (4) an ovum with its surrounding group of cells is more distinct and near the centre of the ovary; a fluid is appearing within the ovisac as the development proceeds. (5) is a much more mature ovisac or Graafian follicle.
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At its lower end are an ovisac and bulbous "roots," which would normally be embedded in the whale bone.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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At its lower end are an ovisac and bulbous "roots," which would normally be embedded in the whale bone.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The cell growth in question is effected in the ovaries; the final stage of the process, the rupture of the containing cell or ovisac, and escape of the ovule, is attended by a concentration of nervous activity in the ganglionic masses sending nerves to those organs -- analogous to that which occurs in the solar plexus at periods of digestion; the fall of the ovule is itself analogous to the shedding of epithelial cells in the gastric follicles; the afflux of blood to the utero-ovarian veins, analogous to the periodical congestion of the gastro-splenic vascular apparatus.
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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