ANOVULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anovulation mean? 

• ANOVULATION (noun)
  The noun ANOVULATION has 1 sense:

1. the absence of ovulation due to immaturity or post-maturity or pregnancy or oral contraceptive pills or dysfunction of the ovary

  Familiarity information: ANOVULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOVULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The absence of ovulation due to immaturity or post-maturity or pregnancy or oral contraceptive pills or dysfunction of the ovary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("anovulation" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Antonym:

ovulation (the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle))