ovarialadj.

1789 E. Sibly Culpeper's Eng. Physician 227 And may be called the ovarial portion which when impregnated by the addition of the male seed,..acquires a further addition from the womb itself.

1790 J. Heath tr. J. L. Baudelocque Syst. Midwifery I. iv. 229 It is called a uterine pregnancy whenever the child is contained in the uterus; a tubal, an ovarial, or an abdominal pregnancy, when the child is found in one of the tubes, the ovaria, or in the cavity of the abdomen.

1819 G. Mantell Jrnl. 4 Feb. (1940) 4 Mrs. Chapman..had long been suffering with Ovarial Dropsy.

1822 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 112 340 The ovarial yelk-bag gives way at the middle line, farthest from the insertion of the blood-vessels, and the yelk drops out into the mouth of the oviduct.

1873 C. W. Thomson Depths of Sea iii. 109 The four ovarial openings and the madreporic tubercle are on the dorsal surface.

1928 Jrnl. Heredity 19 263/1 This newly discovered action of pollen on the ovarial tissues of the mother plant.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xvii. 254 In the female yellow perch there is a single ovary..which is surrounded by a baglike membrane, the ovarial sac.

1996 Brit. Jrnl. Clin. Pract. 50 450 Tubal sterilisation..might be a possible risk factor, causing ovarial dysfunction and oestrogen deficiency.