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What is ovulation?

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What is a medical definition of ovulation?

Ovulation is when the mature egg is being released by the ovary to fallopian tube. The process seems to be very simple but in order for this to happen, there are several other actions in the female body that need to take place.

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Nurse, Independent Fertility Nurse Consultant & Coach at Fertility Industry Consultancy & Podcast Co-Host
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When you have a cycle, at the beginning and then as you go through the cycle, you start to get an increase in all the hormones that prepare your body for ovulation and it’s starting and continuing to mature the egg and with ovulation you have lots of different follicles and you have one mature follicle – that’s getting ready. It’s a bigger follicle than the others and that’s going to be your egg and that’s going to ovulate and what happens is you have a burst of hormone called luteinizing hormone which encourages this rupture of ovulation and then your body ovulates.

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Gynaecologist, Obstetrician and Reproductive Gynecologist
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Ovulation could be defined as the sum of all hormonal changes that take place so that ovaries release an egg each month.
Ovulation itself is the release of the egg from the area of the ovary which is called follicle and which then turns into what we call corpus luteum.
Corpus luteum is the area which is responsible for releasing progesterone which rises about a week after the release of the egg has taken place.

Answer from:
Diagnostician, Chief Scientific Officer Pearl Fertility by Colorimetrix GmbH
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Ovulation is when the ovum is released from the ovary into the fallopian tube.

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