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Перевод: ovum

[существительное]
яйцо; яйцеклетка

Тезаурус:

1. There are an estimated 300 million sperms in each ejaculate, of which, of course, only one will eventually fertilize the ovum of the female.
2. "In other words, it became technically possible for me, some three years ago, to make certain accurate predictions about a human individual by studying the structure of a newly fertilized female reproductive cell, in conjunction with detailed investigation of the adults who produced the ovum and the spermatozoon that fertilized it."
3. But he admits that it leaves as mysterious as in 1837, how the maturation of the individual fertilized ovum ensures that the changes be adaptive in each generation.
4. There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation.
5. Every month during the reproductive years, the uterus prepares to receive a fertilized ovum by building up a velvety, blood-rich lining.
6. The foetus which develops in the womb originates from the fusion of two sex cells, the ovum and sperm, and comprises a series of cell structures with a central nucleus containing the hereditary material, known as chromosomes.
7. A sexual bud or ovum has started life, he supposes, as a bud from the mother when she was herself a newly fertilized egg in her mother, the grandmother.
8. By 1993 the international consultancy Ovum expects all suppliers of office products to have added a workflow capability to their software, and predicts that there will be almost 600,000 workflow users by 1997, compared with 23,000 in 1991.
9. This is the thin end of the inverted-pear-shaped uterus in which the fertilized egg (or ovum ) develops.
10. "I consider that ethically a human person is created when the sperm of a male fertilises the ovum of a woman, thus creating an embryo either in the fallopian tubes or in vitro.
11. But as the complex and delicate process unravelled, with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault, it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is.
12. Conversely, while lacking those powers an asexual bud, or even a severed flatworm fragment, can do what an unfertilized ovum can not: namely, produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment, indeed in any healing flesh, of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism.
13. None of his offspring showed any sign of its donkey ancestry and this led W. S. Anderson at the University of Kentucky to conclude that "this son of "Old Bec" had originated from an ovum with no chromosomes from his grandsire the jack".