(n.) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.
(n.) An ovum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) The total content of both thyroid hormones in the oocytes increased throughout most of the ovarian cycle as the oocytes increased in size from less than 2 mg to approximately 6.5 mg by ovulation.
(3) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
(4) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(5) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
(6) The mean ovulation age for the 728 abortuses was 63.4 days (range 33--109 days).
(7) These results strongly suggest that urinary GAGs determination is a precise method for ovulation detection.
(8) These findings suggest, not only that cAMP production alone is sufficient for ovulation, but also that the receptor specificity of the cAMP production is important for the number of ovulations.
(9) These cells produce a neurohormone which stimulates ovulation.
(10) Following parturition, NONLAC cows averaged 4.0 d to negative EB nadir and 14.3 d to first ovulation.
(11) LH serum levels were measured by radioimmunoassay on 10 women who were near the time of presumed ovulation.
(12) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(13) A dose of 3.75 mg and even 4.0 mg of conjugated estrogen was not sufficient to inhibit ovulation.
(14) During 70 days or so from the time of recruitment until just before the beginning of the cycle during which a follicle is destined to ovulate, folliculogenesis is a continuous process dependent on gonadotrophins but independent of the fluctuations in their concentrations occurring during this time.
(15) In all patients buserelin clearly suppressed ovulation.
(16) Repeated laparoscopy in the same animal throughout the menstrual cycle showed by morphological and hormonal criteria that this technique does not significantly influence follicular growth, ovulation, luteal function or cycle length.
(17) 6-OHDA administered intraventricularly in doses 200-500 mug caused temporary blockade of ovulation.
(18) The data are expressed as percent inhibition of ovulation in the treated vs. the untreated ovaries.
(19) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(20) In spite of small corpora lutea and increased follicular activity, none of the prednisolone treated heifers showed signs of oestrogen influence, and the two animals slaughtered 26 days after the start of treatment, did not ovulate or show signs of oestrus.
Primine
Definition:
(n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Primin itself was obtained from Primula elatior and from the petals (corollas) of Primula obconica.
(2) The quinole oxidizes then to the quinhydrone and finally to primin itself.
(3) Patch testing can be performed with pure allergens (primin, sesquiterpene lactones etc.
(4) Primin, an antibiotic extracted from a vegetal named Miconia sp.
(5) In addition, the cells exhibited numerous free ribosomes, little RER, priminent Golgi bodies, and uniformly dispersed nuclear chromatin.
(6) A patients with congenital absence of the left pericardium had an unusual scintillation camera image of the lung showing perfused lung between the heart and diaphragm and a priminence in the area of the pulmonary artery.
(7) All of 21 positive reactions to primin were recorded on D2.
(8) Patch test with primin revealed the persistence of the highgrade hypersensitivity to Primula.
(9) Some indications point to the suspicion that primin occurs in the plant as a glycoside which is separated by extraction treatment to give its quinole and an unknown substance.
(10) Seven compounds were available: primin, three dalbergiones, mansonia quinone (mansonone A), 2,6-dimethoxybenzoquinone and rapanone.
(11) The results indicate that the presence of primin and other quinones is determined by their origin and seasonal variations.
(12) The frequency of negative D2, positive D4 readings was sizeable for all but one substance, primin, with a range of 14% for fragrance-mix to 64% for neomycin.
(13) A priminent S wave was found in 4.1% in lead I, in 10.5% in lead V6, and in 2.3% simultaneously in both leads in 171 patients in whom no pulmonary or cardiac disease was observed at autopsy.
(14) With five of these substances (primin, mansonone A, three dalbergiones) guinea pigs could be sensitized.
(15) The frequency and high degree of current relevance justify inclusion of primin in the standard series, at least in certain geographical regions.
(16) Primin (1 mg) induced to decrease the dropping of a nutrient flux through isolated peribronchial tissue.
(17) 3075 patients (1949 female and 1126 male) were patch tested with the European standard series, including primin 0.01% pet.
(18) Previously we reported the presence of Limulus positive substance (LPS) in blood and urine for several days following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), and foreign particles in the primining fluids.
(19) This consecutive series indicates that the physical event of mitral leaflet prolapse is more common than hitherto appreciated, is priminently associated with non-anginal chest pain, palpitation, and neurological disturbances, and in 90 per cent of cases could be shown echocardiographically.
(20) In interstitial fibrosis of the lung, pulmonary vessels show priminent sclerotic changes.