Talk:Ovarian follicle

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As noted on the folliculogenesis discussion page, the top figure, structure of an ovary: the labels are incorrect and this picture needs to be replaced or edited.

Janette

French pictures
Are we really going to have "Pre-antral follicle" and "Graafian follicles" as a picture gallery? They are in French. They are not very informative to people unfamiliar with that langauage. Furthermore, the pictures that exist are pretty informative already on that point.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

would like to ask
A lady 70 years old has had several scans can't find out so far what the problem is. Could she have Ovarian caner with not being able to breathe. Can't walk or stand without getting completly breathless? Throw out suggestions please. Has a lot of calcium Betry Bassler Kitten1934 When there are follicles on both the ovaries ( left and right) do all the follicle on both ovaries have a chance to be prgnant
 * In order for an ovarian cancer to be causing this it would have had to metastasized and moved to the lungs growing a tumor there. There are cancer marker labs that can be run or an x-Ray of the lungs be taken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.129.247.172 (talk) 04:58, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Correcting description of oocyte
"Oocyte" is described accurately in the intro, but in the structure section it says: "Once a month, one of the ovaries releases a mature egg, known as an oocyte." It should say, "a mature egg (ovum)." Hildabast (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Hildabast. Adjusted. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 12:27, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Follicle Count Inaccuracy
There cannot be 400,000 follicles in the ovaries as this would make the ovaries combined size 10 meters in diameter given that a primordial follicle is 25μm in diameter. (400,00 * 25μm)⇒1x10^7μm; (1x10^7μm ÷ 1,000)⇒10,000mm; (10,000mm ÷ 1,000) ⇒ 10m. Wikipedia's page on folliclegenesis references the size of a primordial follicle being even larger at 30-50μm (measured in partial millimeters), which would yield a combined ovary diameter of 12-20 meters in diameter. A micrometer is one millionth of a meter or one thousandth of a millimeter which is one thousandth of a meter. A meter is 3.28084 feet. An ovary is reported as 3-5cm in length and this count would require the each ovary to be ~2.2ft in length if an ovary were the same length on all sides. [Erickson, G, Glob. libr. women's med.,(ISSN: 1756-2228) 2008; DOI 10.3843/GLOWM.10289, http://www.glowm.com/section_view/heading/Follicle%20Growth%20and%20Development/item/288 ] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.129.247.172 (talk) 04:53, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your edits, IP 38.129.247.172. Wikipedia is created by volunteers like you and I. I'd encourage you to correct this error and source it (and why not create an account while you're at it!) Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:44, 22 March 2016 (UTC)