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ovulation

ohv yuh lay shuhn

  • n  the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle)

  • This conditionwhich occurs within 24 hours or so of ovulationusually lasts one to two days and signals maximum fertility.
  • Listen up, especially if you're thinking of having a child: a UCLA study has shown that women's voices get higher (and more alluringly feminine) as ovulation (and increased .
  • Abortion opponents contend that the birth control pill itself, while designed to prevent ovulation so no egg is fertilized in the first place, may also have the effect of blocking .
News & Articles

  • Letter: Better of Emergency Contraception
    The Obama administration recently gave up its fight to keep age restrictions on the sale of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which prevents pregnancy by inhibiting ovulation. Because the ovum is never fertilized with Plan B, its use is in no way an abortion.
    June 16, 2013 - Valley News
Quotes

  • Larry Birkhead in ABC News
    She talked about it,Birkhead said. "She constantly would bring out these ovulation kits and say, 'Tonight's the night. Today's the day.' You know."
  • Mary Higby Schweitzer in Sydney Morning Herald
    Ms Schweitzer, who reported on the work yesterday in the journal Science, said: "The medullary bone tissues we observe are very ephemeral, only present during ovulation, and being reabsorbed into the body after the last egg is laid, so it is pretty...
  • Barack Obama in Minneapolis Star Tribune
    A vocal Obama backer chanted, "Money for bridges and education, not for war and ovulation."

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