Definition of "ovulatory" [ovulatory]

• Pertaining to ovulation; ovulating (adjective)

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• "It usually happens once a month but can be more or less depending upon a woman's own ovulatory cycle. sometimes you can release more than one egg. if you don't get pregnant that cycle then your body will have a period in about a couple of weeks. women with annovulatory cycles don't ovulate but still get their period. women with irregular cycles could have a 14 day cycle and then a 60 day cycle the next time.www. romanceroadshow.com taking charge of your fertility - a book In humans, the period when ovulation occurs is called the ovulatory phase, and it occupies the fourteenth day of an idealized twenty-eight day menstrual cycle."
• "This method involved controlling the ovulatory process with hormones, surgically removing the eggs and fertilizing them outside the body, then returning them to the uterus."
• "If a woman doesn't ovulate, there's no egg to be fertilized, and the most common cause of ovulatory problems is a little talked about -- and frequently undiagnosed -- health problem called polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS."