PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A woman’s entire egg supply is developed when she is still an unborn baby. At the start of puberty, the eggs are ripened inside the ovary and one is released every month. Each egg contains genetic material. At menopause, the ovaries stop making hormones and eggs are no longer ripened or released.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a prepubescent female, approximately 10, 000 eggs will degenerate and “die” each month. That means by the time a woman reaches puberty, they only have 300, 000-400, 000 eggs left in their ovaries .

Detailed explanation-3: -A female baby is born with all the eggs that she will ever have. This is estimated to be around two million, but by the time a girl reaches puberty, this number has decreased to about 400, 000. From puberty to the menopause, only about 300-400 eggs will be released through ovulation.

Detailed explanation-4: -You ovulate one egg per month, usually. This is the single egg that makes it through the whole ovulatory process: the egg follicle is activated, the egg grows and matures, and then-once it reaches maturation-it breaks free from the ovary and begins on its journey down the Fallopian tubes.