egg cell
ovum , also: egg ***

Acquiring such a number of human egg cells would be difficult and expensive.

A fertilized egg cell is a special case, but it?

A baby girl is born carrying all the egg cells she will produce through her life.

The second concerns the woman as egg cell donor and the risk of actually creating a market.

Before a female fetus is born, she has up to seven million egg cells.

They produce egg cells and are the sites for fertilization.

To create these strains of mice, scientists start at the beginning, with an egg cell.

Now, many hours later, the debate again concerns plans further to exploit women's bodies through the egg cell trade.

Trading egg cells for payment should not be possible.

At one point it actually stopped the egg cells coming into the UK.

The length of time these egg cells are kept inside the female's body is called the gestation period.

In other words, it is an immature ovum, or egg cell.

As a woman ages, so do the egg cells from which the ova are produced.

We also do not want women to be degraded into egg cell or embryo donors.

Financial gain is of course a further reason why egg cells are sold and embryos manipulated.

For example, a fertilised human egg cell can only become a human being and nothing else.

Egg cell donation is not without risks, and women have to sign a declaration that they are aware of these.

One of them fertilizes the egg cell to form an embryo, which will become the future plant.

Except why bother with girls, if you don't need mothers to lay those little egg cells in the first place?

It is clear to me that the trade in egg cells and human embryos should be stopped as quickly as possible.

The egg cells may be produced either by meiosis or mitosis.

Any embryos that might result from this process, known as parthenogenesis, would have only the genes of the egg cell.

The human ovum is between 100 and 200 m long.

The ovum need not leave its natural environment in the body of the female.

The ovum is the largest cell in the human body.

This year, sales are expected to rise only 8 percent, Ovum said.

The first human ovum was described by Allen in 1928.

Yet every month, only one of them releases an ovum; the other holds back.

It was so easy to take the fertilized ovum away.

The other half is contained within the ovum or egg of a female.

Stevenson began his career working for Ovum, an information technology think tank.

That was more or less what a fertilized ovum did anyway.

We have traced thus far the earliest steps in the development of the ovum.

Usually, only one ovum is released at a time.

"Passed from mother to child through the ovum," said Mother.

The mature ovum has a diameter of about 0.2 mm.

"How do you cleanse an ovum that has already been infected?"

In other words, it is an immature ovum, or egg cell.

In this interpretation, Jupiter represents both a female and an ovum.

Learn about the causes and symptoms of a blighted ovum.

They called Amanda in and borrowed an ovum from her, to use for its membrane.

The victor then provides the ovum for that month.

These were produced from a single fertilized ovum, in laboratory conditions.

These two structures, which from now on constitute the ovum, can best be considered separately and in the order of their development.