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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

Chapter 127: ATROPHY OF OVARIES.
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Comprehensive clinical manual detailing disorders of the nervous, genitourinary, ocular, and integumentary systems in domestic animals. It begins with principles of neural control and general symptomatology, classifying motor, sensory, and psychic disturbances and methods for localizing lesions. The text describes specific conditions such as seizures, paralysis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, tumors, and toxicoses, and outlines diagnostic signs and pathological causes. Later sections address urine analysis and renal disease, urinary tract inflammation and calculi, and diseases of the eye, skin, and constitutional systems, combining pathological description with clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and practical guidance for examination and interpretation.

ATROPHY OF OVARIES.

This is observed as a physiological result of having passed the breeding age, and may also take place from disease and degeneration of the organ. The fibrous stroma is usually increased and the cell elements reduced, yet in some cases, a cystic development occurs, giving the appearance of hypertrophy, while the ovarian parenchyma has actually been diminished.