WordNet
n. the reproductive system of females
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The female reproductive system (or female genital system) is made up of the internal and external sex organs that function in human reproduction. The female reproductive system is immature at birth and develops to maturity at puberty to be able to produce gametes, and to carry a fetus to full term. The internal sex organs are the uterus and Fallopian tubes, and the ovaries. The uterus or womb accommodates the embryo which develops into the fetus. The uterus also produces vaginal and uterine secretions which help the transit of sperm to the Fallopian tubes. The ovaries produce the ova ( egg cells). The external sex organs are also known as the genitals and these are the organs of the vulva including the labia, clitoris and vaginal opening. The vagina is connected to the uterus at the cervix.
At certain intervals, the ovaries release an ovum, which passes through the Fallopian tube into the uterus. If, in this transit, it meets with sperm, a single sperm can enter and merge with the egg, fertilizing it. The corresponding equivalent among males is the male reproductive system.
Fertilization usually occurs in the Fallopian tubes and marks the beginning of embryogenesis. The zygote will then divide over enough generations of cells to form a blastocyst, which implants itself in the wall of the uterus. This begins the period of gestation and the embryo will continue to develop until full-term. When the fetus has developed enough to survive outside the womb, the cervix dilates and contractions of the uterus propel the newborn through the birth canal (the vagina).
Usage examples of "female reproductive system".
Sickert might have been inordinately curious about the female reproductive system that had given birth to his ruined life.
The female reproductive system, it seemed, was very chintzy with its eggs, and even with this system pregnancy was usual only once in every two or three years.
For another thing, the human brain, as complicated as it is, gets tricked into sending the wrong signals to the whole muscular-glandular-nervous female reproductive system.
Leidecker had drawn an outline on the blackboard that resembled the head of a long-horned steer but was supposed to have been the female reproductive system, and was in the midst of explaining about the egg dropping from the Fallopian tube, and becoming fertilized by one of the minnowlike squiggles swimming up to meet it, when Lana Boutsakaris had raised her hand to ask, But how does the sperm get up there in the first place?
The female reproductive system apparently exhausts its supply of potential egg cells within some thirty years or so, as it did before.