What does the word ovary mean?
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[ Latin] One of the pair of organs in which the ova are developed. The o. is lined by peritoneum, and consists of a fibrous layer( tunica albuginea) investing a soft stroma of vascular fibrous tissue. The stroma contains numerous Graafian vesicles, each enclosing an ovum. The vesicles gradually approach the surface of the o., and there burst, discharging the ovum, which enters the Falloppian tube. The remains of a Graafian vesicle from which the ovum has escaped form the corpus luteum.
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