For years, a mysterious tangle of tissue lurking beneath the ovary has been dismissed, absent from anatomy charts and medical ...

A microscope image of the tissue around the rete ovarii, an organ that may play an important role in female fertility. | Credit: Apperson, K.D. et al., 2017 An unsung appendage in the female body ...

Now, while it is a known fact that obesity increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and kidney issues, its impact on female reproductive ... is when excessive body fat accumulates, inviting ...

The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than ...

the function of the cardiovascular system, and other essential bodily processes. However, most people know it for its role alongside progesterone in female sexual and reproductive health.

The next year in sixth grade, when they get to middle school, all students use a science book that includes one page about the male reproductive system, one page about the female reproductive ...

The vaginal opening is the part of the vagina visible outside the body. People commonly describe the vagina as the general area of the female reproductive system. However, the vagina specifically ...

“Some people may have genitals that look typical for a male – with a penis – but have XX (‘female’) chromosomes and female body parts ... of their reproductive system,” as HHS ...

Others may involve conditions affecting parts of the female reproductive system. Piles and Fistula ... The liver performs many important functions in the body such as storage and filtering of ...

I couldn’t figure out how, in all the centuries humans have been alive and studied ourselves, we could still know relatively little about the female reproductive system compared to other systems in ...