Word: ovum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...
...earlier a woman knows she is pregnant and can deal with her child-to-be, the better for him. Eighty per cent of a human being is perfected during the 40 weeks in the womb. From a fertilized ovum smaller than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal...
...pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested to Drs. Click & Biskind that Vitamin C may be involved in the formation of sex hormones...
...fathers. According to Research Director Allan Winter Rowe of Boston's Evans Memorial Hospital, the trouble with these peculiar Italians is that their thyroid glands neglect to secrete a newly-discovered hormone. The special duty of this hormone is to invigorate sperm cells. To reach and fertilize an ovum, a sperm cell must live at least 24 hours. Premier Mussolini found that the sperms of his peculiar Italians died before they were 12 hours old. Promptly he ordered two special clinics set up to administer the hormone of fatherhood...
...Dafoe is positive that the Dionne quintuplets are identical, i. e., developed from a single ovum. That seemed incredible to many an obstetrician who telegraphed Dr. Dafoe for details of this rare and astounding example of multiple births...