| The storehouse for the seeds they call the 'ovary,' from the Latin ovum, an egg. |
| We rather think of the latter as a new form of life to whose nature both the ovum and the spermatozoon have made significant contributions. |
| On the 1st December I bred also from another ovum a small hymenopterous parasite. |
| When a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum, a single cell is created with the potential to grow into a human person. |
| In 1968, the same year Edwards's partnership with Steptoe began, he succeeded in fertilizing a human ovum outside the womb. |
| Lack of progesterone is especially instrumental in expelling the fertilized ovum and it results in an abortion. |
