What is "luteum"

Usage examples of "luteum".

All the research carried out to date all over the world had arrived at the same inescapable conclusion, namely that an emphatic chemical command to abort was being passed to the chorionic gonadotrophin effectively preventing the corpus luteum from developing.

Otherwise there would be confusion with the third of the pituitary gonadotrophins, which carries on the work of the second, acting to maintain the corpus luteum, once formed, and to stimulate the production of progesterone.

The first action of the hormone of the corpus luteum is to stimulate the growth of the inner lining of the uterus, preparing it for the reception of the fertilized egg.

In the female it stimulates the final ripening of the follicles, their rupture to release the egg, and the conversion of the ruptured follicle into the corpus luteum.

The European Yellow Pond-Lily (Nuphar Advena or Nuphar luteum - Spatterdock or Frog-lily) may be used as a substitute.

If extracts from the corpus luteum are injected into such ovariectomized animals, however, pregnancy can be made to continue normally to its natural conclusion.