Mammal Ovary Slide, Thin sec, H&E

a good place to start in describing the histologic features of the female genital tract would be an ovary this is a human ovary it's a human ovary in an infant because it contains many features you would not find in an adult ovary first of all all of these individual cells you see here towards the cortex or the periphery of the ovary can be called for lack of a better term oo sites are simply ova they are the first stage of development of the follicle when the oo sites are have developed enough to have a small nest of flat or squamous looking epithelium around them like here and like here and like probably here and like maybe here you can call those primordial PRI M o AR di al follicles when the epithelium surrounding the oo site has a columnar or cuboidal epithelium leg here and like here you call those primary follicles and notice there are a lot of generally spindly or stromal cells