OVUM

(Lat.), n. n. O'vu3m(wum). Gr., ameter, and, as with the ova of higher animals generally, is produced only by the female and must be fertilized by union with a sperm a to zooid before it OVUM OF THE RABBIT, FROM A GRAAFIAN js Capable of develop FOLLICLE 5^ OF AN INCH (2MM.) IN DIm mto an organism AMETER. (AFTER WALDEYER ) like its parent. [J, 1, i, epithelium of the ovum; i, zona pellucid a, with 30, 35.] See also EGG. raditating striations (vitelline membrane): c, germinal 2. In botany, see OVULE, vesicle; d, germinal spot; e, vitellus. OOSPHERE, and OoSPORE. 3. See EMBRYO. "of ** [A^s-Bier zb vzFW''oeuf abort if degenere. A fecundated o. of which the has been destroyed by haemorrhage into the chorion or the cavity vitality of the 1 boi, but may develop into a fleshvesv moemole hwn^ "?^;ted,ectlc ' An - Bowing extravasation of Woorlblood between the decidua vera and the decidua reflex a or be-- ml death of the o. and uterine wall. It eneraly results abortion. [Play fair (a, 34).]-Com pound ~ is concerned m the direct formation of the embrya [B ]-Olem e vitellis ovorum (seu e vltello ovi [Fr Cod 1) Oleum ovoJK l U / os-7-lan o. Fr., vufttarLnuJvar7 n? thPnmittf?; ovule ovarien. Ger., Ovarialei. The primitive o.; the o. while yet it remains within the Oraafian vesicle It consists e entially of the vitellus and the vitelline membrane -Ovi albumen Ovi albumen tum, Ovi alb us liquor, Ovi candidum. White ot egg. [B. 59.]-Ovi vitellus [Br Ph.] See Pod ^rT0va- /allll ac a Gr- Ph'l' ' galllnaceum fFr. Cod.].1 Fr., ceuf de poule) [Fr.r j,Cod.]. Sp., huevo del gallina [Sp A, ape: A>, at; A, ah; A, all; Ch, chin: Ch". loch (Scottish); [s. 188]