anovulatory
Following ovulation the ovulatory follicle must be capable of forming a viable corpus luteum if pregnancy is to be maintained.
Women with ovulatory dysfunctions are successfully treated with this drug.
Attempts were made to evaluate the effects of stress on ovulatory incidence.

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Examples of ovulatory

ovulatory
The present analysis is restricted to 6 days of each post-ovulatory phase, beginning with the 5th post-ovulatory day.
This suggests that some factor, perhaps ovulatory status, distinguishes those individuals who did and those who did not experience this mid-luteal exacerbation.
Second, activity in the post-ovulatory phase may be increased by its proscription in the earlier phase.
Restoration of ovulatory cycles by young ovarian grafts in aging mice: potentiation by long-term ovariectomy decreases with age.
Cycles shorter than 21 days in this series were usually ovulatory.
In young women it seems, the attainment of maximum fertility precedes the development of maximum ovulatory efficiency.
Further, following ovulation the ovulatory follicle must be capable of forming a viable corpus luteum if pregnancy is to be maintained.
It was of interest therefore to examine ovulatory patterns in normal women before and during the perimenopause.
Eight of the 12 patients returned to normal ovulatory cycles after surgical removal of their tumors and five conceived spontaneously during the follow-up period.
Additional studies performed in mammals have also shown that progesterone is involved in the ovulatory process.
Effects of superovulatory doses of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin on oocyte quality and ovulatory and steroid hormone responses in rats.
Records were obtained of 1898 ovulatory cycles; the number of cycles per couple ranged from one to seventy-three (the second highest was forty-nine).
In cycling animals waves of ovulatory follicle development are interrupted by the process of ovulation.
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