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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ovarian
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cancer
▪ Most cases of ovarian cancer arise on the epithelial surface of the ovary, not in the ovary itself.
▪ In order to diagnose ovarian cancer, you have to do surgery to obtain a biopsy.
▪ Anything that inhibits ovulation - eg, pregnancy or oral contraception - reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.
▪ Thompson said the Pap smear only detects cervical cancer; it does not detect ovarian cancer or endometrial cancer.
▪ Trials have been encouraging, with a 30-35 percent remission rate in over 200 ovarian cancer patients.
▪ Bobbi Olson was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 1997.
▪ Every year 6,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 4,000 die.
▪ Rehnquist confronted it himself when his wife, Natalie, died in 1991 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few weeks later she fell ill with the ovarian cyst, but the picture was now Lycopodium.
▪ Bobbi Olson was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 1997.
▪ Every year 6,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 4,000 die.
▪ In order to diagnose ovarian cancer, you have to do surgery to obtain a biopsy.
▪ Most cases of ovarian cancer arise on the epithelial surface of the ovary, not in the ovary itself.
▪ Rehnquist confronted it himself when his wife, Natalie, died in 1991 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
▪ The measurement of estradiol-17p is used to evaluate ovarian function. 345.
▪ Thus the search for a reliable way to detect or even predict ovarian cancer goes on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ovarian

Ovarian \O*va"ri*an\, Ovarial \O*va"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to an ovary.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ovarian

"pertaining to an ovary or the ovaries," 1810, see ovary + -ian.

Wiktionary
ovarian

a. (context medicine English) Relating to the ovaries.

WordNet
ovarian

adj. of or involving the ovaries; "ovarian cancer"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "ovarian".

Electrical treatment will destroy the life of ovarian and fibroid tumors if applied early and after the improved methods so long used at our Institution.

You at once give up on any organic cause when even a student would suspect ovarian trouble of some kind: if not fibroids, cysts.

Sterility may result from impaired ovarian innervation or undue excitement of the nerves, either of which deranges the process of ovulation.

After suffering from invagination of the bowel and inflammation of the ovarian tissue, an ovary was discharged through an opening in the sigmoid flexure, and thence expelled from the anus.

Role of soy protein with normal or reduced isoflavone content in reversing bone loss induced by ovarian deficiency in rats.

Those cases in which two masses of ovarian tissue are separated by ligamentous bands.

A diagnosis was made of multilocular ovarian cyst or edematous myoma of the uterus, and on the morning of December 7, 1890, an operation was performed.

One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous.

Connie now needs only to receive these barren sisters, apply the sacred rites, and furtively pray that the Fourth Lateran Council was indeed guided by the Holy Spirit when it undertook to bring the baptismal process into the age of testable destinies and ovarian surveillance.

Maury removed a monocystic ovarian tumor from a woman of seventy-four, his patient recovering.

It was a pedunculated growth, and it was undoubtedly vesical and not expelled from some ovarian source through the urinary passage, as sometimes occurs.

She was an only daughter, and her mother had died a few years previously from the shock and hemorrhage resulting from an operation for the removal of a large ovarian tumor, performed by the late lamented Dr.

OVARIAN TUMORS generally consist of one or more cysts or sacs, developed within the ovary, and filled with a fluid, or semi-fluid matter, which is formed in their interior.

There was also a suspicion, as yet unproved clinically, of a link between certain fertility drugs and subsequent ovarian cancer.

Testing for genes predisposed to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and, possibly, breast and ovarian cancer may in time save lives, Collins judges.