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yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum

yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum

The yellow glandular mass formed in the ovary by an ovarian follicle that has ruptured and discharged its ovum.

(F.) Corps jaune, yellow body. A small yellowish body, perceived in the ovarium, and left after the rupture of one of the vesicles. It was, for a long time, considered an evidence of previous impregnation; but Corpora lutea are met with in unquestionable virgin; although the corpora lutea of virgins have been generally regarded to differ materially, in size and character, from those of impregnation, which have been called true corpora lutea in contradistinction to the other, called false corpora lutea.

Yellow mass in the ovary in the place of an ovisac which has discharged its ovum.

The solid yellow body formed in the ovary during the retrograde metamorphosis of a graafian follicle after the extrusion of the ovum. It has been used in substance, or as an extract, or as lutein, expressed from the fresh bodies, for the relief of symptoms caused by artificial menopause following operation.