ovologyn.
/əʊˈvɒlədʒi/, U.S. /oʊˈvɑlədʒi/ Now chiefly historical.
The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and development of ova.
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ovology1839
neuroembryology1933
placentology1960
fetology1965
1839 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 8 42 The paragraph which follows the above quotation contains observations on a point of ovology which is entirely new to us.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Oologia,..Ovology, a description of the ovum.
1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 198 Investigations..in reference to this interesting point of ovology.
1955 C. M. Stern tr. E. van Beneden in Classics Biol. 122 The foundations of comparative embryogeny and ovology were definitely established.
1979 Isis 70 322/1 This is a facsimile edition of a university textbook of 1853 on ‘embryology’ (ovology).
1992 French Hist. Stud. 17 732 The study, in Michelet's terminology, of ‘ovology’, or the science of reproduction.
Derivatives
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embryogenic1844
ovological1850
oological1855
embryogenetic1861
embryogenical1864
neuroembryologic1933
neuroembryological1950
1850 R. P. Thomas tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery 143 It is nearly or wholly impossible, in the present state of ovological knowledge, to explain this strange anomaly.
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embryologist1795
ovologist1852
ontogenist1890
neuroembryologist1950
placentologist1955
1852–4 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 46/2 The researches of modern ovologists..enable us to assert with confidence the general similarity of structure in the ova of animals.
1854 J. C. Peters Treat. Dis. Married Females 9 To which ovologists have given the name of caducous membrane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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