Re: What happens to the developing oocytes in a sterlized woman?

Date: Tue Jun 9 18:55:12 1998
Posted By: Bruce Lobitz, M.D., Emergency Medicine, Aiken Regional Medical Center
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 891001171.Zo

Message:


The developing oocytes are still released by the ovaries and can still pass into 
the fallopian tubes where they become stuck and then die.  Of course there is 
also a remote chance that one will pass through a microscopic hole in the tube 
and make it into the uterus to be fertilized.

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