(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.
Quintine
Definition:
(n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(2) Here's Quintin Berry, and if the Tigers can't score here...well... 1.53am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Bottom 5th A little flare by Infante finds a little bit of room out on right field, and that really is all you need.
(3) Quintin Price, a former manager at investment management firm BlackRock, will join the management board to lead Deutsche’s assetmanagement business, while the current head Michele Faissola will leave the bank.
(4) Meanwhile Quintin Mikell is questionable with a foot injury and his return is questionable.
(5) But the director general of the European commission, Odile Quintin, yesterday acknowledged that the EU was divided on the issue, and that the position, for now at least, was that the word "apology" would not be used.
(6) Both Hogg’s parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership following the resignation of Harold Macmillan.
(7) She did not disclose her brother Quintin’s role at Barclays – regulated by the Bank – until 22 February when she filled in a questionnaire from the Treasury select committee before her evidence about her promotion to deputy governor.
(8) Now Quintin Berry will hit for the pitcher, and he chops to Scutaro at second and just gets the out at first, side retired!
(9) 12.28am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Bottom 1st Quintin Berry is up next and he works a full count off of Cain, fouls a few balls off, gets Cain to throw eight pitches and then lines a ball... *JUST* foul into the corner.
(10) 1.12am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 0, Bottom 3rd Quintin Berry bunts, and Cain and Sandoval nearly collide in trying to field it, and Sandoval gets the ball and manages to just throw out Berry at first.
(11) So we have two runners on and just one out for Quintin Berry.
(12) Emwazi was educated at another school in the area, Quintin Kynaston (QK), where his contemporaries included the singer-songwriter Tulisa.
(13) Her parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, better known as Lord Hailsham, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership after the resignation of Harold Macmillan in 1963.
(14) Bank of England deputy's slip-up was astonishing – but its reaction was predictable | Nils Pratley Read more Hogg’s troubles began when it emerged that she had not declared a potential conflict of interest , which is that her brother, Quintin Hogg, is a director of group strategy at Barclays, which the Bank of England regulates.
(15) A scion of one of Britain’s most high-profile political families, Hogg had initially told MPs last month that the Bank was aware of Quintin Hogg’s role at the high street lender.
(16) 7.32pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, :42, 2nd quarter Carolina's Quintin Mikell was injured on the last play, looks like the ankle.
(17) The lengthy beer menu lists 170 brews, including hard-to-find local specialities such as Quintine beers from the witches’ town of Ellezelles (which claims to be birthplace of Hercule Poirot, solely on the basis of a fake birth certificate) and lovely spicy, unfiltered La Chouffe on tap.
(18) 2.56am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Pinch-hitting for the Tigers for Quintin Berry is Avisail Garcia.
(19) Then we have trouble, a one-out walk to Quintin Berry, which means the meat is coming up with a man on.
(20) 1.51am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Bottom 5th Quintin Berry hits a grounder that Cain can't get a handle on but, it gets to Crawford who throws to Belt just in time to get the out and end the inning.