THE UTERUS-OVARY RELATIONSHIP AND ITS BEARING ON THE TIME OF OVULATION IN PRIMATES

Abstract

A critical review of available evidence indicates that none of the 4 different lines of approach to this subject, the condition of the ovary, the condition of the uterus, the length of pregnancy, or the time of conception, justifies us in assigning ovulation to an invariable period of the menstrual cycle even though the period be broadly defined. In particular the conception of the uterus-ovary relationship given herewith enables one to utilize differently Schroeder''s careful histological study of hundreds of endometrial scrapings, and to conclude that ovulation, while more apt to occur in the mid intermenstrum, occurs at all times in the human menstrual cycle.