ovarian

Pertaining to an ovary.

• o. agenesis — one or both ovaries absent; usually accompanies defects of the tubular reproductive organs.
• o. anomaly — includes ovarian dysgenesis (see below), agenesis (above) or hypoplasia, as in Swedish Highland cattle.
• o. bursa — a pouch formed by the mesosalpinx and the mesovarium that encloses the infundibulum of the uterine tube and the ovary. It is shallow in the mare and does not enclose the ovary. It is capacious in sows and deep with a fat-filled wall in the bitch.
• o. bursitis — inlammation of the ovarian bursa; likely to affect the function of the ovary and ovulation.
• o. cycle — the cycle of follicle maturation and rupture, then luteinization and regression of the corpus luteum followed by recommencement of the cycle, unless pregnancy intervenes.
• o. cyclicity — the regular appearance of estrus as an indication of the regular occurrence of estrous cycles.
• o. cyst — see cystic ovarian disease (below).
• cystic o. degeneration — persistent cysts derived from ovarian follicles which do not ovulate. Follicular cysts are thin-walled and fluctuant, and often multiple. Luteal cysts have a thick wall of luteal tissue about the cyst, are firm to palpate and do not rupture easily. There is abnormal estral behavior, either anestrus or nymphomania, and diminished fertility.
— Cystic corpora lutea form after ovulation has occurred and do not interfere with reproduction. They have a characteristic ovulation papilla.
• cystic o. disease — common disease of cows, less common in sows, characterized by gross abnormalities of estrus, either anestrus or more frequent and prolonged. In cows the cysts can be palpated per rectum.
• o. dysgenesis — small, inactive ovaries lacking germ cells such as occur in mares lacking a second X chromosome.
• o. follicle — see ovarian follicle.
• follicular o. cyst — see cystic follicle.
• o. hormones — estrogens, progesterone.
• o. hypoplasia — functional hypoplasia in immature females and undernourished females of all ages are common findings; in the absence of these risk factors hypoplasia is genetic in origin in Swedish Highland and possibly white Ayrshire cattle.
• o. imbalance — an alternative name of endocrine dermatoses caused by abnormalities of ovarian function in bitches. Type I, associated with cystic ovaries or functional ovarian tumors, consists of a bilaterally symmetrical alopecia, gynecomastia, enlargement of the vulva, and abnormalities of the estrous cycle. Type II is a bilaterally symmetrical alopecia, sometimes with seborrhea, in spayed bitches. It is responsive to treatment with estrogen. Called also estrogen-responsive dermatosis.
• o. inflammation — see oophoritis.
• intrafollicular o. hemorrhage — hemorrhage into an ovarian follicle occurs in all species during ovulation; also rarely in anovulatory follicles.
• luteal o. cyst — see luteal cyst.
• luteinized o. cyst — see luteal cyst.
• o. neoplasms — includes mostly granulosa cell tumors, but also rarely carcinomas, fibromas, thecomas, sarcomas.
• o. pain — a rare cause of colic in mares; identifiable by eliciting pain by rectal palpation of ovary.
• premature o. failure — defective differentiation of ovarian tissue and the patient shows no signs of pubertal estrus until long past the customary age.
• o. rebound — return of cyclical ovarian activity after a period of inactivity, usually pregnancy and parturition.
• o. remnant syndrome — the return of estral activity in a desexed female; due to failure to remove all of the ovarian tissue or to dropping, and allowing to implant, a piece of the ovary.
• rete ovarii o. cyst — a convoluted system of epithelial cell cords and tubules occupying part of the ovarian medulla; the cysts are found mostly in the hilar region of the ovary.
• o. serous inclusion cyst — similar in size and appearance to, but distinguishable from, ovarian cysts by their intraovarian position; lined by cuboidal epithelium thought to be pinched off from indentations of surface epithelium.
• tubular epithelial o. cyst — formed from epithelial cells from the surface of the ovary.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or involving the ovaries
  Pertains to noun: ovary (meaning #2)