What is "ovaries"

Usage examples of "ovaries".

She explained that the clinic was removing, without consent, the entire ovaries of unsuspecting women who thought they were only donating a few eggs.

So, on the ovarian trolley there was this voyage of man and bull-frog composed of identical stuff, neither better nor less than Dante but infinitely different, the one not knowing precisely the meaning of anything, the other knowing too precisely the meaning of everything, hence both lost and confused through beginnings and endings, finally to be deposited at Java or India Street, Greenpoint, there to be carried back into the current of life, so-called, by a couple of sawdust moils with twitching ovaries of the well-known gastropod variety.

If need be, after the ovaries are taken, you can put these creatures in the cooler and autopsy them when convenient.

At any rate, when we do it right, the ovaries are constantly ovulating mature oocytes.

She then led them to the tank immediately adjacent to the one containing Kristin Overmeyer's ovaries and pointed at the appropriate sphere.

Both women trembled with the realization that they were looking at the ovaries of a woman who was supposed to have disappeared along with Kristin Overmeyer after picking up a hitchhiker.

Finally Deborah said that at least two women had been murdered because both ovaries had been obtained, and the women had never been seen again.

In the first place he didn't know precisely what ovaries meant and so I was explaining it to him in crude and simple fashion.

In the midst of my explanation it suddenly seemed so profoundly tragic and ridiculous that Hymie shouldn't know what ovaries were that I became drunk, as drunk I mean as if I had a quart of whisky under my belt.

From the idea of diseased ovaries there germinated in one lightning-like flash a sort of tropical growth made up of the most heterogeneous assortment of odds and ends in the midst of which, securely lodged, tenaciously lodged, I might say, were Dante and Shakespeare.

He would endeavour to explain to me how the pus from the rotting ovaries put her in heat.

Once the ovaries were ripped out there'd be no telling how she'd take it.

On the dance floor you'd think she was going to make you a permanent present of her ovaries, but as soon as she hit the air she'd start thinking, thinking other hat, of her purse, of her aunt who was waiting up for her, of the letter she forgot to mail, of the job she was going to lose - all kinds of crazy, irrelevant thoughts which had nothing to do with the thing in hand.

She had a way of swooping suddenly, as if she had spotted a ripe carcass, diving right into the bowels, pouncing immediately on the tidbits - the heart, the liver, or the ovaries -and making off again in the twinkling of an eye.

The virus can persist up to seven generations in the ovaries of WTV's insect vectors.