Category: O

  • Overdo

    To work too hard or to do too much exercise (informal).  

  • Overcompensate

    To try too hard to cover the effects of a condition or quality.  

  • Overcome

    To fight something and win. To make a person lose consciousness.  

  • Ovariotomy

    A surgical operation to remove an ovary or a tumour in an ovary. Ovariotomy, or oophorectomy, is the operation of removal of an ovary or an ovarian tumour. The surgical extraction of an ovary or the surgical removal of a sizable ovarian cyst.  

  • Ovariocele

    A hernia of an ovary.  

  • Ovarian cyst

    A cyst which develops in the ovaries. Sac, often filled with fluid or semisolid material, that develops in or on the ovary. It may be transient and functional or a sign of pathology; if it causes pain or is malignant, it is usually removed surgically. Abnormal cystic growth on the ovary comprised of a closed…

  • Ovarian cycle

    The reguiar changes in the ovary during a woman’s reproductive life.  

  • Ovarian

    Referring to the ovaries.  

  • Ovaralgia

    Pain in the ovaries.    

  • Oval window

    An oval opening between the middle ear and the inner ear. Opening in the temporal bone between the middle ear and the vestibule of the inner ear which is covered by the end of the stapes. The opening from the middle ear cavity to the inner ear, over which the plate of the stapes fits;…