Read Oogenesis Through Follicle Stages
In a simplified 28-day cycle model, ovulation occurs about once per cycle. A single functioning ovary can continue to ovulate in successive cycles.
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Apply the cycle count
If ovulation alternates between two ovaries, each contributes about six ovulations per year. If one ovary is removed, the remaining ovary can ovulate in successive cycles, about twelve times per year in the simplified model.
Track follicles through ovulation
Ovarian follicles mature around an oocyte; the preovulatory follicle releases a secondary oocyte at ovulation. The ruptured follicle becomes the corpus haemorrhagicum and then the corpus luteum; later regression leaves a corpus albicans.
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- ✓About one ovulation per cycle in the simplified model.
- ✓Alternating ovaries: about six ovulations per ovary per year.
- ✓One remaining ovary may ovulate in successive cycles.
- ✓Ovulation releases a secondary oocyte.
- ✓Ruptured follicle → corpus haemorrhagicum → corpus luteum → corpus albicans.
Do not assume the remaining ovary must rest every other month.
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