ovarian
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5.3
- adjective
- /oʊˈvɛəriən/
- Specialized
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- My mom was really sick with ovarian cancer.
- ovarian cancer
- advanced ovarian
- ovarian carcinoma
Oh, should we check your ovarian reserve to make sure that your time is OK?
- Oh, should we check your ovarian reserve to make sure that your time is OK?
- I've had breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
- Nancy is the wife of my partner who passed away from ovarian cancer.
- So PCSPCOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome.
- My blood work came back at one point and the ovarian cancer marker in my blood was very high.
- It's been shown that women with severe PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer.
- And that's significant because we're so poor at diagnosing ovarian cancer early.
- So, so because nursing costs so much energy, that high energy demand of nursing suppresses ovarian function.
- Those are opportunities for those cancer cells to go away in that remodeling process and lead to ovarian cancer.
- Well, I learned first hand recently when I met with a woman from the Central Valley who's being treated here for ovarian cancer.
- Franklin had died of ovarian cancer four years before the Nobel committee turned to DNA and made its award.
- While that is true, the risk of ovarian cancer is relatively low for women who do not have genetic risks or a strong family history.
- We also had the call about my raised ovarian cancer blood level.
- I think it's ovarian cancer that they say that it leads to.
- So in mouse models, rapamycin will preserve ovarian life.
Examples
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In laboratory tests, the devices have been able to target ovarian cancer cells and inject them with therapeutic chemicals.
Academic text (2010) -
It's been shown that women with severe PTSD have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer.
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I think it's ovarian cancer that they say that it leads to.
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We also had the call about my raised ovarian cancer blood level.
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Now, while you do have an advanced form of ovarian cancer, we removed everything that we found.
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When I introduced them, my mother was dying of ovarian cancer.
Fiction book (2000) -
My blood work came back at one point and the ovarian cancer marker in my blood was very high.
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While that is true, the risk of ovarian cancer is relatively low for women who do not have genetic risks or a strong family history.
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Life began to crumble, though, when ovarian cancer was diagnosed for her only daughter.
Blog text (5) -
The doctor explained the symptoms of ovarian cancer to the concerned patient.
Synonyms
7
4.9
Relating to the health of a woman's reproductive organs
2
6.8
Relating to women's reproductive organs and their health
Relating to the parts of the body that make eggs or sperm, like ovaries and testes
Compounds
- Specialized
3
4.8
A fluid-filled sac on or inside an ovary that may need medical treatment
- Specialized
A rare pregnancy when the fertilized egg grows in an ovary instead of the womb
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ovarian comes from the Latin word ovum, which means 'egg', and from ovary, the body part where eggs develop. So ovarian simply means 'relating to the ovaries'.