on = egg + kytos = hollow vessel (cell); germ cell in ovary.
(oh´ eh site) [Gr. oon: egg + kytos: cell] • The cell that gives rise to eggs in animals.
the female germ cell which matures into an ovum by meiosis.
(Gr. ôon: egg; kytos: what covers) n. A female germ cell (primary oocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a polar body and a haploid cell (secondary oocyte), which in turns gives rise to a second polar body and an ootid.
Female reproductive cell. At birth, an ovary contains 1-2 million oocytes; at puberty, only 500'000-400'000 remain. Only 400500 will be ovulated - one every month - until menopause. All others will degenerate at various development stages.
an immature female germ cell that gives rise to an ovum after two meiotic divisions
OO-site The female sex cell before it is fertilized. 196
Ovum in the stages that precede maturation.
an immature ovum in an ovary
An egg cell that contains 23 chromosomes (one X chromosome and 22 autosomes), which are considered immature. At birth, a woman's ovaries contain all the oocytes she will ever have. Each month about 50 oocytes start to grow and mature, but only one or two normally reach the fully, mature stage. A follicle (bubble of fluid on the surface of the ovary) releases the mature oocyte, which is gathered in by the fringy end of the fallopian tube. During the next two days of the woman's midcycle, the oocyte will travel through the tube. This is the time when the egg can be fertilized if it meets a sperm cell.
Egg, Ovum Female sex cell.
Developing egg; usually a large and immobile cell.
the technical term for egg.
The gamete produced in a woman’s ovaries; generally one egg is made each monthly cycle
The egg that is produced in the ovary.
unfertilized egg (embryologist terminology: unfertilized female gamete (sex cell).
immature ovum still in the ovary, becomes an ovum following meiosis.
(-uh-sight) [Gk. oion, egg + kytos, vessel] A cell that gives rise by meiosis to an ovum.
A matured female reproductive cell - also called an egg or ovum.
A cell that will/is undergo/ing development into a female gamete. PICTURE
An egg before maturation: a female gametocyte.
The egg produced by the ovaries each month. Also called the ovum (gamete).
An ovum; the egg before it is released at ovulation
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the egg, contained within the follicles in the ovary.
The mature, female reproductive cell (also known as an egg cell).
an egg cell that has not developed completely
The egg cell produced in the ovary, also called ovum, egg or gamete.
the mature female germ cell; the egg
The female reproductive cell, also called an egg.
An unfertilized egg, which is a single cell.
(oh-oh-SITE) The developing female reproductive cell; an immature egg.
(O-o-sit) A gamete produced within an ovary. Also called ovum or egg.
the mature oocyte, also called ovum or egg, is the female gamete, possessing a genome reduced by half (haploid genome), ie normally 23 chromosomes.
The immature ovum, the unfertilized female gamete or sex cell (egg) produced in the ovaries each month, that contains the genetic information to be transmitted by the female.
Developing egg cell (ovum) in the ovary.
The egg cell in a female. In nature, an oocyte will not divide or develop until it is fertilised by a sperm cell and the nuclei of the two cells have fused
ovarian cell in which meiosis occurs to form an egg
The developing female gamete before maturation and release.
female germinal cell or ovum containing 23 chromosomes (= egg)
As used here, the term oocyte is synonymous with egg.
Gr. oon - an egg; Gr. kytos - a hollow vessel, modern usage: cyt- denotes a cell]. A female germ cell that must undergo two meiotic divisions to become a mature ovum.
the developing female gamete before completion and release. The female germ cells in stages between the prophase of the first maturation division and the completion of the second maturation division.
The egg cell produced in the ovaries. Also called the ovum or gamete.
Egg produced by the woman each month in a follicle in her ovary, also known as an ovum.
The female gamete known as an egg or ovum.
An immature, unfertilized egg cell.
An egg – the cell produced by the ovary with which sperm fuses to produce an embryo.
The gamete in females. See ovum.
a female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions.
A female germ cell in the works; a developing egg cell.
The female germ cell often called an egg.
An immature female gamete, or "egg." The term "oocyte" usually refers to an immature egg, while the term "ovum" refers to a mature egg.
Developing female gamete; immature ovum
An immature female reproductive cell, one that has not completed the maturing process to form an ovum (gamete).
The form of the ovum, or egg, which is undergoing a halving of the number of chromosomes through the process of meiosis; See also: primary oocyte See also: secondary oocyte
Ovum/ Ova The female haploid gamete prior to fertilization by a spermatozoon. Two haploid gametes (oocyte and sperm) combine to produce the single-cell diploid embryo. The female gamete is generally equivalent to what would be termed a secondary oocyte in higher animals, being formed after the meiotic division of a diploid germ cell. As the oocyte matures, it remains in syncytial contact with the rachis to gain nutrients and organelles from nearby gametes, many of which will undergo germline programmed cell death after sharing these components with the surviving oocyte The term is also frequently used to refer to a “fertilized oocyteâ€, which is then the diploid cell resulting from the fertilization event and is actually an early embryo.
cell that undergoes division to produce an ovum.
An oocyte, ovocyte, or rarely oöcyte is a female gametocyte or germ cell involved in reproduction.