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ovum (medicine)


ovum


1. The female reproductive cell which, after fertilization, develops into a new member of the same species (von Baer, 1827), an egg.

2. The human ovum: a round cell about 0.1 mm. In diameter, produced in the ovary, where there is deposited around it a noncellular covering (oolemma, zona pellucida, zona radiata). It consists of protoplasm which contains some yolk, enclosed by a thin cell wall (vitelline membrane). There is a large nucleus (germinal vesicle), within which is a nucleolus (germinal spot). By extension, the word is also used to designate any early stage of the conceptus, when the embryo itself constitutes a tiny and insignificant part of the whole.


magniloquent (iou)



magniloquent adjective. M17.
[from Latin magniloquus (from magnus great + -loquus speaking) + -ENT.]
Lofty or ambitious in expression, grandiloquent. Also, boastful.
T. R. Lounsbury To describe so slight a performance in so magniloquent a manner. F. Donaldson Psmith..is elegant in appearance, imperturbable by Nature, a magniloquent tease.
magniloquence noun the quality of being magniloquent E17.
magniloquently adverb M19.
magniloquy noun (rare) [Latin magniloquium] magniloquence M17.