GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An immature egg is called an oocyte – oocytes rest in follicles (fluid-filled sacs that contain an immature egg) in your ovaries until they begin to mature. A female foetus has around 4 million eggs.

Detailed explanation-2: -At birth, the normal female ovary contains about 1-2 million/oocytes (eggs). Females are not capable of making new eggs, and in fact, there is a continuous decline in the total number of eggs each month. By the time a girl enters puberty, only about 25% of her lifetime total egg pool remains, around 300, 000.

Detailed explanation-3: -During fetal development, you have about 6 million eggs. At birth, there are approximately 1 million eggs left. By the time you reach puberty, only about 300, 000 remain. The number of eggs you have continues to decline as you age and menstruate each cycle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Women are born with  1 million potential eggs (in the form of ovarian follicles), but that’s all the eggs we’ll ever have. Unlike skin cells or blood cells, which regenerate, our bodies aren’t able to make more egg cells.

Detailed explanation-5: -When a baby girl is born, her ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of eggs, which stay inactive until puberty begins. At puberty, the pituitary gland (in the central part of the brain) starts making hormones that stimulate the ovaries to make female sex hormones, including estrogen.