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GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Graafian follicle" is a kind of...):
follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)
Meronyms (parts of "Graafian follicle"):
corpus luteum (yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun)
Holonyms ("Graafian follicle" is a part of...):
ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)
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