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Endocrine System > Endocrine Glands > Gonads > Ovary
Urogenital System > Genitalia > Gonads > Ovary
Urogenital System > Genitalia > Genitalia, Female > Adnexa Uteri > Ovary

Preferred term

Ovary  

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Entry terms

  • Ovaries

Note

  • OVARY, PLANT is also available; /surg permitted but is probably OVARIECTOMY; /abnorm: agenesis or dysgenesis: coord OVARY /abnorm (IM) with GONADAL DYSGENESIS (IM); /cytol: consider also THECA CELLS; inflammation = OOPHORITIS; polycystic ovary, sclerocystic ovary = POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

Scope note

  • The reproductive organ (GONADS) in female animals. In vertebrates, the ovary contains two functional parts: the OVARIAN FOLLICLE for the production of female germ cells (OOGENESIS); and the endocrine cells (GRANULOSA CELLS; THECA CELLS; and LUTEAL CELLS) for the production of ESTROGENS and PROGESTERONE.

In other languages

  • munasarjat

    Finnish

  • munarauhanen
  • munarauhaset
  • munasarja
  • ovaario
  • ovaariot
  • ovario
  • ovariot
  • ovarium
  • Äggstock

    Swedish

  • Ovarium

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010053

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