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- adjective Around the time of
ovulation .
Etymologies
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peri- + ovulatory
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Examples
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Shao R, Rung E, Weijdegård B, Billig H (2006) Induction of apoptosis increases SUMO-1 protein expression and conjugation in mouse periovulatory granulosa cells in vitro.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mara Marongiu et al. 2010
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The process requires a maximum of thirty-six hours to complete, and it is arbitrarily separated into three phases: periovulatory, ovulatory, and postovulatory.
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