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mesovarium

[‚me·zō′var·ē·əm]
(anatomy)
A fold of the peritoneum that connects the ovary with the broad ligament.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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On histologic examination, inflammatory infiltrate was present within the mesentery and mesovarium consisting of heterophils and histiocytes with aggregates of basophilic coccobacilli.
Leydig cell tumor, hilar cell type, are unilateral, small, mostly microscopic, yellow-to-brown, soft, fleshy, circumscribed masses in the hilar region of the ovary and adjacent mesovarium. Leydig cell tumors are composed of closely packed sheets or solid cords of uniform, polyhedral, and eosinophilic cells.
6), and attaches to the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity by a mesovarium. The ovary in adults ranged from 9 to 25 cm long and from 2.6 cm to 9.6 cm wide.
testudineus is a bilobed organ lying just ventral to the air bladder and is attached to the body cavity by a thin membrane mesovarium. The spindle shaped ovary on the left side is slightly greater in length than that of the right side and they remain separated from one another throughout their length.
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