Graafian

Called the Graafian follicle, it produces what is thought to be the strongest egg, the one you will eventually ovulate.

Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

In all the mammals the mature ova are contained in special capsules, which are known as the Graafian follicles, after their discoverer, Roger de Graaf (1677).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

_Graafian follicle_, and there are as many Graafian follicles as there are ova.

Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

Of the human egg-cell and the Graafian follicle the aborigine is not likely to know anything, nor can he know that the mother lodges the thing corresponding to the eggs of birds.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Every twenty-eight days, from the time of puberty to the time of the menopause, a Graafian follicle bursts and an ovum is extruded from the ovary.

Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

(The Graafian follicles were first described about 250 years ago -- in 1672 -- by a Delft physician named De Graaf, hence the name.)

Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

_Graafian follicles_ of the ovaries and the discharge of an ova, or egg.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

Could such a change occur in the animal kingdom, there would be the unfertilised ovum converted into an ovary, and this again bearing Graafian vesicles!

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

In this work he demonstrated first, that the Graafian follicles in the ovary are not the actual eggs, but that they contain the spherical vesicle, which is the true ovum, a body about the one hundred and twentieth of an inch in diameter, wherein lie the properties transmitting the physical and mental characteristics of the parent or grandparent, or even of more remote ancestors.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The following facts have been established, without a doubt: The Graafian Vesicle, containing the egg in the ovary, enlarges during menstruation and bursts open to let the egg escape usually on the first day after the flow ceases, and seldom, if ever, later than the fourth day.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis