| Corpus hemorrhagicum | |
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| Dorlands/Elsevier | c_56/12260536 |
The corpus hemorrhagicum ("bloody body") is a temporary structure formed immediately after ovulation from the ovarian follicle. Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group Note This article deals primarily with Human ovulation nonhuman Animal ovulation is touched on briefly at the conclusion Ovarian follicle is the basic unit of female reproductive biology and is composed of a roughly spherical aggregations of cells found in the Ovary. After the trauma heals, the subsequent structure is called the corpus luteum (which in turn becomes the corpus albicans before degenerating. The corpus luteum ( Latin for "yellow body" (plural corpora lutea) is a temporary Endocrine structure in mammals involved in production of The corpus albicans (Latin for "white body") is the regressed form of the Corpus luteum. )
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