Examples of ovum in a Sentence
Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 May 2022
One of the two missing eggs is known as the Cherub with Chariot, which depicts a chubby baby angel pulling an ovum on a carriage.
—Stu Woo and Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
The menstrual cycle is usually 28 days and is divided in half by ovulation on day 14, as the ovum is released from the ovary.
—Jason Karp, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2014
Afterward, odds are fair that an ovum of the bottom lizard will set out on its parthenogenic way.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
The right chemical stimulus can cause a mammalian ovum in a lab, even a human one, to start dividing and producing an embryo without sperm.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2020
Each ovum has its own characteristics and personality, but the woman is young, not necessarily in a forever-relationship and just not ready for a baby of her own.
—Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com, 15 July 2019
Pregnancy occurs when a sperm cell fertilizes an ovum that has been released into the Fallopian tubes after ovulation.
—Shan Boodram, Teen Vogue, 19 July 2018
This is the part of the sperm that produces an enzyme that breaks down the outer edge of the ovum, enabling pregnancy.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2018
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Word History
New Latin, from Latin, egg — more at egg entry 1
1672, in the meaning defined above
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