How to Use ovum in a Sentence

ovum

noun

• Afterward, odds are fair that an ovum of the bottom lizard will set out on its parthenogenic way.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 2021-11-08
• 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, 2018-07-16
• 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, 2022-12-07
• If there exists a Platonic ideal of a bird egg, an ovum shaped most like all the others, it is not laid by a chicken but by a small warbler called the graceful prinia.
  — Ben Guarino, sacbee.com, 2017-06-22
• 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, 2020-06-18
• 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, 2014-03-14
• Pregnancy occurs when a sperm cell fertilizes an ovum that has been released into the Fallopian tubes after ovulation.
  — Shan Boodram, Teen Vogue, 2018-07-19
• The most common places for an ectopic pregnancy are along the path the ovum (egg) travels, meaning from the ovary, through the fallopian tube (which carries the ovum from the ovary to the uterus) and the uterus, and even its opening, the cervix.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2022-05-06
• 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, 2019-07-15