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Ovarian   /oʊvˈɛriən/   Listen
Ovarian

adjective
1.
Of or involving the ovaries.



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"Ovarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... all disturbances of the menstrual functions arising from debility, anemia or nervousness, Dr. Martel's Female Pills are of unsurpassed value. This preparation is a uterine and ovarian sedative, and is of special service in treating congestive and inflammatory conditions of these organs which are ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens

... suffered by any friends with whom he was in sympathy; he once tried to argue with me that a certain lady patient—a warm personal friend of my questioner and a Spiritualist—had ovaritis, because he felt an intense burning pain in his right ovarian region whenever he went near to her. I tried to reason with him that that pain should be in his right testicle, but he would insist on having the sympathetic ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... nervous disturbance of the sexual organs, there is frequently great pain felt during menstruation; in others, ovarian irritation and a so-called "irritable," or sensitive uterus, giving rise to manifold nervous and hysterical symptoms, sometimes culminating in convulsions or "fits." In not a small proportion of the uterine diseases which are generally only locally treated by physicians, the local ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... of noticing my cirripedial volume. All that I have seen since confirms everything of any importance stated in that volume—more especially I have been able rigorously to confirm in an anomalous species, by the clearest evidence, that the actual cellular contents of the ovarian tubes, by the gland-like action of a modified portion of the continuous tube, passes into the cementing stuff: in fact cirripedes make glue out of their own unformed eggs! (33/6. On Darwin's mistake in this point see "Life and ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... made the interesting observation on Tilapia galilaea that while the eggs are developing in the bucco-pharyngeal cavity the ovarian eggs are rapidly growing towards maturity, so that a fresh deposition of ova may almost immediately follow the release of the young fishes from maternal ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... bring about the permanent cessation of menstruation, called the menopause. This event occurs prematurely if both the ovaries are removed by operation. In view of these facts it is not surprising that sometimes ovarian disorders abolish menstruation. An impoverished state of the blood, or nervous shock and strain, or constitutional debility may also interrupt the regular appearance ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons

... of the lungs from pleuritic effusion. Paracentesis thoracis. Hydrops pericardii. Puncturation. Abdominal and ovarian dropsy as influencing the position of the viscera. Diagnosis of both dropsies. Paracentesis abdominis. ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise



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