How To Use Ovum In A Sentence

  • fertilization of the ovum, the matter most on his mind that morning. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • It’s not completely true that mtDNA is derived strictly from the ovum. Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid
  • (In animals the female reproductive cell is called ovum, plural ova.) Chapter 5
  • While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • [3] The ovum is really the fully mature egg ready for fecundation; before maturity it should not be called ovum but oöcyte; and in advanced treatises it is so referred to. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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  • The central novum of any of this type of work, according to Suvin, has to be within the bounds of scientific reason.
  • Derived from a single fertilized ovum or embryonic cell mass. Used especially of identical twins.
  • During the menstrual cycle, an ovum is released from one of the ovaries (the release is called ovulation), and the uterus develops an inner lining enriched with blood to prepare it for the possible implantation of a zygote. Menstrual cycle
  • On the 1st December I bred also from another ovum a small hymenopterous parasite.
  • Following surgery, the donor and recipient were treated with praziquantel. No proglottid or worm ovum was detected by dung detection within 3 months, without any discomfortable symptom.
  • Doesn't have to be a Simmental, because the characteristics of the future animal are in the ovum, not in the substitute mother. Centennial
  • Abortion may be due to pathological changes in the ovum, the uterus, or its adnexa one or both -- to the physical or nervous condition of the woman, to diseases either inherited or acquired (syphilis, tuberculosis, rheumatism); to any infectious, contagious, or inflammatory disease; to shock, injury, or accident. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • I have been favoured by Miss Lawrence with one of these letters as a specimen: ” 'T. LAWRENCIO, Medico, S.' NOVUM frigus, nova tussis, nova spirandi difficultas, novam sanguinis missionem suadent, quam tamen te inconsulto nolim fieri. Life Of Johnson
  • 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. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • When a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum, a single cell is created with the potential to grow into a human person.
  • This is termed the discus proligerus, and in it the ovum is imbedded. XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 1. The Ovaries
  • Then he jumps up to preview some of albums released as the label celebrates its 40th birthday: first a track from the duo album reuniting Jarrett with the bassist Charlie Haden, a member of the pianist's American quartet in the 70s and a frequent contributor to ECM's mid-period output, then a piece from Officium Novum, the new collaboration by the Hilliard singers and Garbarek, whose own debut LP was ECM's seventh release, in 1970. Manfred Eicher: the sound man
  • In fact, as yesterday's novum are conventionalised by generations of reuse, I'd argue, they have become equivalently folkloric -- comfortably familiar as genre tropes. Narrative Grammars
  • The former is incorrectly termed ovum, for it merely corresponds to what in well-fed sanguineous animals is fat; and thus it is that it makes its appearance in Testacea at those seasons of the year when they are in good condition, namely, spring and autumn. On the Parts of Animals
  • But what is sex but the difference between ovum and spermatozoon, between megagamete and microgamete? Hormones and Heredity
  • Other adaptations concern the protection of the sexual organs and sporogonia, and the retention of water in the neighbourhood of the archegonia to enable the spermatozoid to reach the ovum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • In this work he demonstrated first, that the Graafian follicles in the ovary are not the actual eggs, but that they contain the spherical vesicle, which is the true ovum, a body about the one hundred and twentieth of an inch in diameter, wherein lie the properties transmitting the physical and mental characteristics of the parent or grandparent, or even of more remote ancestors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • This act is called insemination, although conception does not follow unless the ovum and spermatozoon Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves
  • The superficial dividing lines between the different cells, which come from the repeated segmentation of the ovum, look like deep furrows on the surface, and hence the whole process has been given the name of furcation. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • What finally broke thought free was a determination to read the book of nature, which was really not a text at all and which therefore demanded a novum organon, a new logic, the methods of modern science.
  • But in all other animals the ovum first grows into two primary layers, the outer or animal layer (the ectoderm, epiblast, or ectoblast), and the inner or vegetal layer (the entoderm, hypoblast, or endoblast); and from these the tissues and organs are formed. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • June 23rd, 2006 at 2: 19 am mtDNA is mitochondrial DNA & is distinct from nuclear DNA. mtDNA codes only for the proteins of the mitochondrion, the cell organelle responsible for oxidative phosphorylation, & plays no role in heredity other than this. mtDNA is derived only from the ovum & is used in forensic DNA fingerprinting. kim Says: Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid
  • An ovum (plural ova) is a mature egg released at ovulation.
  • - Cantate Domino canticum novum: quia mirabilia fecit. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Compare this with most mammals, in which mating is timed to coincide much more precisely with the release of an ovum.
  • The difference between man and the infusorian is only that in the former the cells which originate from the double cell (the fertilized ovum) remain together and become differentiated one from another, while in the latter the cells are usually scattered but remain alike in appearance, etc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
  • The female cell of the animal organism is always called the ovum (or ovulum, egg, or egg-cell); the male cells are known as the sperm or seed-cells, or the spermatozoa (also spermium and zoospermium). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • The first cells to arise from a fertilized ovum are described as totipotent ( "potent for everything"). Autotomous Penes & Endless War
  • With this example of antitoxic diphtheria therapy, I have attempted to enumerate for you the chief characteristics of serum therapy as a novum in therapeutics and as a progressive step in medicine. Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture
  • If fertilization occurs, progesterone supports implantation of the ovum and maintains the pregnancy.
  • Man is developed from a small cell called the ovum or ovule, about the 120th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no apparent respect from the ovules from which other animals grow. Haeckel on gastrulation - The Panda's Thumb
  • Comparing blood quantum to a diagram on genre that speculativizes any writing with a teeny bit of novum is specious. More on Map of Spec Fic
  • As the metazoic embryo in its earlier stages of development is not yet able to obtain its food and so build up the frame, the necessary material has to be stored up in the ovum. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • The plausibility of the novum is crucial in this type of SF because the argument being made in these narratives is that the ruling paradigm, the accepted nomology in which the events of the narrative "could not have happened", is false, and that the hypothetical nomology, the alternative paradigm in which the events "could have happened", is in a very real sense, a truth of temporal possibilities. Narrative Grammars
  • This novum is not the same thing as a genre trope, not at all -- though most novum will eventually be recycled by later writers, and a set of tropes derived from the process of conventionalisation, symbolic formulation. Strange Fiction 6
  • Queensland University of Technology, says the finding overturns the traditional view that fluid surrounding the ovum, known as follicular fluid, is sterile. Undefined
  • A first cleavage of the stem-cell (cytula), B division of same into four segmentation-cells (only two visible), C the germinal disk divides into the blastoderm (b) and the periblast (p). d nutritive yelk, f fat-globule, c ovolemma, z space between the ovolemma and the ovum, filled with a clear fluid.) The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • If it's all strange fiction, if a conceit is a conceit (and can be explained, excused or exploited) regardless of whether it's counterfactual, hypothetical or metaphysical, we have problems, I think, in sticking to Suvin's term "novum". Strange Fiction 9
  • Even when a novum is constructed in a fiction which plays with existing tropes, familiarity is of less import than the estrangement, the peculiar novelty it capitalises on. Strange Fiction 6
  • When an ovum is matured, it escapes from the ovary into the narrow tube referred to, called the _Fallopian tube_, and passes down into the cavity of the uterus. Plain Facts for Old and Young
  • But in all other animals the ovum first grows into two primary layers, the outer or animal layer (the ectoderm, epiblast, or ectoblast), and the inner or vegetal layer (the entoderm, hypoblast, or endoblast); and from these the tissues and organs are formed. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • fertilization of the ovum, the matter most on his mind that morning. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • Regem coeli cum pace, Plenum odorem vitae, Novum carmen cantate, Omnes sancti venite. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Where the narrative represents events that contravene these we have four flavours of quirk respectively (expanding on Suvin's coinage/exaptation of "novum" and following his naming strategy): sutura; chimera; erratum; novum. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
  • In previous discussions of the subject I have urged that the only meaning of sex was the difference between the megagamete or ovum, and the microgamete or sperm. Hormones and Heredity
  • For in all these animals the head is central, but in the sea-urchin the so-called ovum is above [and symmetrical, while in the oyster it is only one side]. On the Parts of Animals
  • Since you appear to believe there is no difference between the potential development of a blastocyst and the actual status of a term infant, you must also hold every sperm and ovum in the same regard. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • The nucleus of the mature ovum is termed the female pronucleus. I. Embryology. 2. The Ovum
  • That such a complete collection of gemmules is aggregated in each ovum and spermatozoon in most animals, and in each part capable of reproducing by gemmation (budding) in the lowest animals and in plants. On the Genesis of Species
  • Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • This mecon in the turbinated genera is lodged in the spiral part of the shell, while in univalves, such as limpets, it occupies the fundus, and in bivalves is placed near the hinge, the so-called ovum lying on the right; while on the opposite side is the vent. On the Parts of Animals
  • The first stage in the development of any animal is the tiny speck of plasm, hardly visible to the naked eye, which we call the ovum, or egg-cell. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
  • How does a zygote differ from an ovum?
  • The clear protoplasm of the mature ovum is made so turbid by the numbers of dark granules of food-yelk or deutoplasm scattered in it that it is difficult to follow the process of fecundation and the behaviour of the two nuclei during it (Chapter The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • This mecon in the turbinated genera is lodged in the spiral part of the shell, while in univalves, such as limpets, it occupies the fundus, and in bivalves is placed near the hinge, the so-called ovum lying on the right; while on the opposite side is the vent. On the Parts of Animals
  • Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • As in most other animals, the sperm mitochondria penetrate the cell membrane of the ovum at fertilization.
  • But what is sex but the difference between ovum and spermatozoon, between megagamete and microgamete? Hormones and Heredity
  • As the firstfruits of his travels he published, for the Knights of Malta, "Specula Melitensis Encyclica sive syntagma novum instrumentorum physico-mathematicorum" (Messina, 1638). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Although such promises pose as progress and commandeer for themselves the slogans of progress and progressive thinking, viewed historically they are nevertheless a regression to an era antedating the novum of Christianity, a turning back along the scale of history. Politics
  • In the Preface to his "Parasceve," published in 1620, in the same volume with the "Novum Organum," he says, that he is about to describe a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
  • The ovum is now what has been called a gastrula; and it is of importance to observe that probably all the Metazoa pass through this stage. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • I'm going to avoid it from here on in, partly because it narrows the focus, I would argue, to the exploited hypothetical (when a hypothetical conceit is conventionalised as a trope, can we really describe it as a novum?), and partly because it becomes horribly problematic if we want to turn novum into an adjective to decribe this type of narrative in similar terms to those established, with an adjective describing an abstract quality. Archive 2006-09-01
  • More to the point, the technical distinction between levels of impossibility is simply not that relevant in terms of how these quirks function; temporal or metaphysical, what we're dealing with is the impossible; novum, erratum or chimera are just different flavours of quirk; and, functionally speaking, these different types of transgression play the same way in most readings. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
  • Named for the "translucent, elastic, noncellular layer surrounding the mammaliam ovum," ZP is performed by Stephen Lawson under the direction of Aaron Pollard. JAM! Showbiz
  • Basically, this means that ethical concerns about "destroying an embryo" for raw stem cell materials are obviated, since a parthenogenic ovum is not viable -- and furthermore, the elimination of an unfertilized egg every 28 days or so is noncontroversial, so presumbaly "rescuing" eggs before they're flushed will be similarily morally unambiguous. Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
  • Structure of the Ovum (continue) • A distinct perivitelline space is seen between the cell membrane (vitelline membrane) and the zona pellucida. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • 26: Dabo vobis cor meum, et spiritum novum dabo in medio vestri, et auferam cor lapideum, daboque cor carneum, etc. VIII. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • = Each primitive or primordial ovum [3] is imbedded in a little vesicle or follicle, which is generally known as Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • For in their early stages of development within the ovary the ova of the highest animals are likewise in the condition of naked cells, exhibiting amoebiform movements; the enveloping membrane of an ovum being the product of a later development. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple – donation of a sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus – are gravely immoral. Christa Dias, Mother, Fired From Catholic Schools For Use Of Artificial Insemination
  • Oysters also have a so-called ovum, corresponding in character to that of the sea-urchins, but existing only on one side of their body. On the Parts of Animals
  • Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • We rather think of the latter as a new form of life to whose nature both the ovum and the spermatozoon have made significant contributions.
  • The weaker content and application potential compared with iOS devices continues to expose the main weakness of Android devices in general," said Ovum analyst Tony Cripps . Samsung Sets Prices for New Galaxy Tablets
  • At (4) an ovum with its surrounding group of cells is more distinct and near the centre of the ovary; a fluid is appearing within the ovisac as the development proceeds. (5) is a much more mature ovisac or Graafian follicle. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • She had brought this precious coding back and placed it within a specially grown ovum here in this very apartment. METAPLANETARY
  • In order for that to happen, a woman has to have the right hormones in the right sequence in the right proportions to release an ovum, which needs to be fertilizable, have patent fallopian tubes to allow said fertilization to take place and with any luck transport it down to the uterus, but we’re not talking about ectopic pregancies here at the moment and have a cervix not hostile to the sperm. More on “pro-life” and feminism
  • If the android is an utterly familiar trope, or rationalised to the most rigorous degree, or both, surely it can't continue to function as a novum. Strange Fiction 8
  • - Cantate Domino canticum novum: quia mirabilia fecit. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Compare this with most mammals, in which mating is timed to coincide much more precisely with the release of an ovum.
  • You and Marshall have a legitimate dispute as to whether an unimplanted but fertilized ovum is a human being deserving equal protection of law. Del. Marshall Wants Birth Control Debate at cvillenews.com
  • It may be a ‘potential person,’ or have the ability to grow to become a person, but a similar claim could be made for a sperm and an ovum that haven't yet touched each other.
  • Special names have been given to these parts of the ovum; the cell-body is called the yelk (vitellus), and the cell-nucleus the germinal vesicle. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • The other constituents of the ovum, viz., its limiting membrane and the denser spot contained in the nucleus, called the nucleolus, are not essential to the type cell, and in fact many cells exist without them. I. Embryology. 1. The Animal Cell
  • During this time the sperm is undergoing a process of maturation called capacitation without which it is incapable of fertilising an ovum. iii) The ovum and capacitated sperm meet in the fallopian tube.
  • The series of mitotic cell divisions that produces a blastula from a fertilized ovum. It is the basis of the multicellularity of complex organisms.
  • People are able to take an ovum, fertilize -- not fertilize it, let me say, jolt it, that is to say induce it to start growing, fuse it they call it -- fuse it so that it starts growing into cells. CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2002
  • In 1620 he published his Novum organum, presenting his philosophy of science in the form of aphorisms, many of them memorable.
  • Song merchandise! Listen to afresh you scolding barbarian to knead your ovum to explode! "Hammer son a jilt a hand to fly Ju to dart at ground up.
  • With this example of antitoxic diphtheria therapy, I have attempted to enumerate for you the chief characteristics of serum therapy as a novum in therapeutics and as a progressive step in medicine. Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture
  • For Harvey, as every student of his works knows, believed in equivocal generation; and, in the sense in which he uses the word ovum, Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English
  • -- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the Fallopian tubes. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
  • The big break-through was not having to use an ovum, geddit? The Sun
  • Such an ovum as that of our present type, however being devoid of such yolk (alecithal = without yolk), necessitates a very early start in life, and, for reasons too complicated to state fully here, the development in such a case is considered particularly instructive and primitive by zoologists. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • -- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • Darwin called the pinhead brain of the ant the most marvellous atom of matter in the world, but the human ovum is more marvellous still. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
  • I further hold, in accordance with the uncontroverted evidence that I have heard, that a pregnancy cannot come into existence until the fertilized ovum has become implanted in the womb.
  • In previous discussions of the subject I have urged that the only meaning of sex was the difference between the megagamete or ovum, and the microgamete or sperm. Hormones and Heredity
  • When a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum, a single cell is created with the potential to grow into a human person.
  • A future tense narrative creates a special case: the limits of known science do not apply to what “will happen”, so the novum is not impossible and the alethic modality remains “could happen”. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The peculiar tissue growth within the uterus called decidua, which occurs normally in pregnancy and serves to fasten the developing ovum to the inner lining of the uterus, may be produced experimentally. Disease and Its Causes

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