What is that, you ask? They are photos of the exact moments of ovulation in a woman, of course!
Captured so clearly for the first time by doctor Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium (while performing a partial hysterectomy), these photos are an incredibly detailed look at how humans initially start their reproductive phase of life.
The release of an egg was considered a sudden, explosive event, but his pictures, to be published in Fertility and Sterility, show it taking place over a period of at least 15 minutes.
Shortly before the egg is released, enzymes break down the tissue in the mature follicle, a fluid-filled sac on the surface of the ovary that contains the egg. This prompts the formation of a reddish protrusion, and after a while a hole appears, from which the egg emerges, surrounded by support cells. It then enters a Fallopian tube, which carries it to the uterus.
Kinda looks like a very big, juicy pimple!
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that is cool but nasty
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That is fucking cool. Like a chicken laying an egg.
This helps prove birth begins at conception, that God knew us before we were wonderfully made
Oh shut up, this does not prove anything but what an egg being released from the ovaries looks like. You have no idea what you are talking about. Conception is when the sperm fertilizes the egg and these pictures have nothing to do with sperm or fertilization. If there was such an almighty god, he would have made damn sure he didn’t make idiots like you.
good answer!!:)
LOL FTW.
How on earth does this prove anything about conception??? Are you trying to say that every egg is a potential life, but in a really clumsy way?
In your language, you flush away someone God knew every month!
What are you on about???
Nice pictures but that is not an egg; a human egg is about 0,2 mm which is at least ten times smaller than what we see here.
The article says that it’s a human egg surrounded by support cells.
Reading ftw.
Um… how does this prove anything about life beginning at conception? That doesn’t even begin to make sense. It just proves that humans have natural reproductive cycles.
How big do you really think that surgical instrument was? The pictures are obviously larger-than-life-sized.
Anyway, these pictures are absolutely brilliant! Amazing to see.
No, that’s an egg. Or at least there’s one in there. The actual oocyte (egg cell) is still surrounded by a sticky mass of granulosa cells, called the corona radiata, and that’s what you can see here.
EWWWW, THAT’S FUCKING DISGUSTING
get used to it.
Bart, ever heard of a microscope?
Anyways, very interesting, and like many other body processes, kinda gross to see in effect.
Kai,
Are you suggesting that the egg is under a microscope but not the ovary or follicle? I agree with Sam about the corona radiata, otherwise what is represented would in fact be too large to be an egg.
Why is it that we feel such natural aversion to something functioning correctly? Amzing, but f*cking gross!
MMMMM!!! CAVIAR!!!
(also, crazy person, this doesn’t prove anything)
No wonder it hurts when I ovulated. Daaaaang. That protrusion looks horribly inflamed.
hey
don’t forget some one has sacrificed and suffered the pain to make this possible…
some others would prefer to sail in their superstition ideas and only very few bear the pain to clarify one unknown to the humanity…i don’t know to laugh or to cry when i still hear in the schools that baby is a gift from god, so why the hell do you have genitals down there…
lol@those who said disgusting eliminating is more disgusting than that, I think its fascinating!!!! And I agree that “God” has nothing to do with this
So are women friendly or crabby when this is going on?
Anyway, this is LIFE waiting to take hold. What a miracle.
It is extremely unlikely that evolution would do this alone, starting out from simple cell organism to complex organism that take detail into everything. Even if you don’t believe in God, there has had to have been some sort of creator. If it was just up to evolution, and to procreate… why would love be important?
Love is complete unnecessary to procreation. Look at most animals – there is no “love” involved. In some species, the male does help to nurture or care for the young, ensuring the survival of his genes, but in many, the male drops of the sperm and then is gone.
Love is a human evolutionary trait that helps with survival of the species. Humans have evolved in such a way that early human females would have had a very difficult time caring for the young by themselves. The evolution of love or attachment meant that males would stick around to help raise their young – which is evolutionarily beneficial to them, as they are insuring that their genes survive. This is one mechanism of evolution to insure survival of an individual’s genes – different species have evolved different mechanisms. It is only modern humans that have applied “love” to something other than the rearing of young.
ovulation releases the egg into the fallopian tube. This looks like it’s being secreted into the abdomen