Ovaries

Menopause is the permanent cessation of the ovaries' primary functions.

The surgical removal of an ovary or ovaries is called an oophorectomy.

While most ectopic pregnancies occur in the Fallopian tube, it is also possible for them to occur in the ovaries, abdomen, or cervix.

Gynaecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and breasts.

The menopause is the permanent cessation of the ovaries' principal functions.

Her ovaries were removed.

Women have two ovaries.

The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that, finally, at the pubescent period, they ripen and liberate an ovum, or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity through the Fallopian tubes.

Slugs, like snails, are hermaphroditic mollusks, who thus have both ovaries and testes.

Many women are unable to conceive because of a condition known as polycystic ovary syndrome, in which the ovaries fail to secrete enough hormones to stimulate egg production. Injury to the ovaries caused by radiation or surgery also can interfere with a woman’s ability to produce enough viable eggs, or oocytes, to achieve pregnancy.