human reproduction as a whole is incredibly interesting because honestly. SO many things can go wrong in the process

camomilafil replied to your post: “this semester started well embriology is amazing and in histology…”

I looked up “ovaries on a microscope” on google images and somehow I can kinda see what you mean? they seem innocent. untainted by sin

honestly, everything looks kinda cute on the microscope. intestines? cute as fuck, look at them microvilli and goblet cells. absolutely adorable. blood? don’t even get me started on that, erythrocytes are cuddly pink spheres of love and all the different leukocytes are beautiful and unique.

but ovaries are specially cute to me bc you can see all the stages of an ovarian follicle’s development. from a wee lil primordial follicle to a gigantic, marvelous Graaf follicle ready to pop and get fertilized, it’s all in there and it’s absolutely beautiful. my classmates had to put up with me crying over finding an intact corona radiata in lab class this week

the corona radiata is the structure that kinda looks like sunrays around the ovocyte. the dark purple thing between the corona and the ovocyte is the zona pellucida, which has to be chewed by the sperms in order to fertilize the egg. it’s very exciting to be able to actually see and identify all the structures we learn in class