CHAPTER XIII 



THE FEMALE GENERATIVE ORGANS AND THE 

 MAMMARY GLANDS 



The Ovaries are a pair of organs lying in the abdominal cavity 

 to whose dorsal wall they are connected by the broad ligament 

 which stretches across the body wall in this region. The}' are 

 composed of a stroma or ground substance of connective tissue 

 containing blood vessels and a number of vesicles of varying 



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Fig. 80. Section through part of ovary of i;i i i i , < haafian follicle 

 (from Marshall), c.t. connective tissue wall oi iullicle,/.f. follicular 

 epithelium, Z./. liquor folliculi, o. ovum, or. primordial ovum. 



sizes called the Graafian follicles. The smallest of these — the 

 primordial follicles — however, have no cavity, but consist merely 

 of ova surrounded by a single row of epithelial cells; they lie just 

 below the surface of the ovary. As the follicles increase in size 

 they pass inwards towards the centre of the stroma, the epithelial 



