THE EPOOPHORON 



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ment, organization, and final contraction of the connective tissue, 

 forming, as it were, a minute but imperfect corpus albicans, in the 

 center of which is often the shrunken degenerating remains of 

 the ovum. 



THE EPOOPHORON". In the margin of the mesovarium at 

 its attachment to the medulla of the ovary, lies a peculiar struc- 

 ture which is variously known as the epodphoron, organ of Rosen- 

 muller, or parovarium. This structure is at present without 



FIG. 331. THE EPOOPHORON OF A DOG. 

 o-a, margin of the ovary. Hematein and eosin. Photo, x 130. 



known function ; it apparently represents the remains of the fetal 

 Wolffian body and is homologous with a portion of the epididymis 

 in the male. 



The peritoneal epithelium in the region of the epoophoron is 



