ovary

• Ovarian cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary, which is one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed. —  NewsInferno
• The hćmorrhages from anemia are, on the other hand, so frequent, as to explain the majority of such cases as Dr. Clarke's 41] Meadows observes: "It is not the ovary which is an appendix to the uterus, but the uterus which is an appendix to the ovary 42] Corpora quadrigemina 43] Corpora striata 44] Thalami optici and corpora striata 45] Hereditary disease, dependent on an imperfect development of blood vessels, and characterized by a remarkable tendency to bleed from any blood-vessel that accident may have opened. —  The Education of American Girls
• Am. ed., p. 48 6] "Much less uncommon than the absence of either ovary is the persistence of both through the whole or greater part of life in the condition which they present in infancy and early childhood, with scarcely a trace of graafian vesicles in their tissue. —  Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
• The function of the ovary is then impaired Causes.--Gonorrhea, septic infection from adjacent tissues, acute fever diseases, mumps, and peritonitis. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
• The substance of the walls of the ovary which is thick and white, projects towards the axis not only between the lobes, but also opposite to each; so that the fruit is really 10-celled, but 5 of the cells are spurious. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

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