(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
(a.) Broadly elliptical.
(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(2) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on 18 January 1983.
(4) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(5) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(6) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
(7) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
(8) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
(9) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(10) This model opened possibilities to study the filamentous form of P. ovale in vitro.
(11) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(12) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(13) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(14) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
(15) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
(16) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
(17) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
(18) Magnetic resonance revealed oval corresponding hypointense foci both on T1-and T2-weighted images.
(19) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
(20) Peripheral blood specimen showed abnormal lymphoid cells with an oval to cleaved nucleus, rather condensed chromatin, occasional prominent nucleolus, and basophilic cytoplasms with vacuoles which seems to be a T-cell counterpart of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with mixed cell types.
Ovular
Definition:
(a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunochemical tests of various antigenic preparations derived from Opisthorchis revealed specific components in metabolic, somatic and ovular specimens.
(2) Thus, this study confirms the hypothesis that the mechanism of action of extra-ovular normal saline instillation in mid-trimester termination of pregnancy is the result of separation of fetal membranes from the uterine wall, leading to the release of prostaglandins which, in turn, causes uterine contractions leading to abortion.
(3) The study presents conditions mostly described as co-existing with the keratoconus in 7 patients (from among 300 examined) born from an uni-ovular twin pregnancy.
(4) The authors have recently introduced a new method : contact embryoscopy which consist in applying the optic piece of a contact hysteroscope (diameter of six millemeters) to the intact and translucent ovular membranes by the cervix.
(5) Normal placental development and ovular anomalies during the first trimester of gestation.
(6) Two cats did not show a second estrus within 30 days, and were subsequently found to have bacterial growth on the culture of vaginal swabs, however the presence of an initial ovular estrus cannot be ruled out.
(7) In 20 mid-trimester abortion seekers induced by extra-amniotic instillation of normal saline, serial estimation of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) in the plasma and extra-ovular space were carried out.
(8) The laboratory criteria of the normal ovular cycle are: a) a mid-cycle LH peak; b) plasma progesterone level at the lutein phase were 10-15 times greater than at the follicular one; c) progesterone peak at the mid-lutein phase; d) the duration of the lutein phase of 12-15 days.
(9) Ovular morphological characteristics were not found to provide a good criterion of the time of ovulation.
(10) The intra-amniotic and extra-ovular routes of administration for induction of mid-trimester abortion, as described by Doctors Karim and Hillier, are examples of the successful application of the principle that prostaglandins can be effective without side-effects when they are delivered close to the site of action.
(11) It is the primitive but now the asexual reproductive, conidial unicellular, ovular, or spherical shaped bodies, arising from the adult plant microorganism, in consequence to a duressing environment, but also the ones with the genetic capability of surviving within a sac or cell, that are present within the malignant cell.
(12) It was observed that PGF2 alpha was undetectable in both plasma and the extra-ovular space prior to the onset of induction, and was first detected in the extra-ovular fluid 2 hours after the onset of induction, prior to oxytocin infusion.
(13) A follow-up of 78 twin pregnancies diagnosed in the first trimester indicated that early ovular resorption occurred in 63% of spontaneous and 64% of Clomiphene-induced gestations, so that singletons were born.
(14) The mean number of ovular cycles necessary before conception occurred was not different in the 2 groups (2.9 compared to 3.0 cycles).
(15) Disturbance of the synchrony of ovular and endometrial development may be a mechanism of contraceptive action of these devices.
(16) On the basis of a histological study of vascular lesions of the endometrium following 108 cases of spontaneous abortion, the authors propose the following conclusions: 1) In the first six weeks of pregnancy, early abortion results more often from a primary ovular defect than from any abnormality in the maternal environment, of endogenous or exogenous origin and capable of resulting in a lesion of the endometrium or its vascularisation.
(17) Thus whilst it is undeniable that the foetus plays a certain role in the dynamics of the amniotic fluid by swallowing and urinary excretion, these phenomena are minimal in relation to exchanges through the ovular membranes.
(18) This would indicate that ovular or ovarian damage is also involved in the incidence of spontaneous abortion among o.c.
(19) A higher prevalence of 71.8% of any grade of dysmenorrhoea was found in this study when compared with figures from developed countries, this and the short mean duration of irregular menstruation (3.7 months after menarche) were taken to be evidence of early establishment of regular ovular menstruation.
(20) Premature breaking of the membranes carries with it a serious risk of immediate or delayed ovular infection which compromises the prognosis.