A menstrual cycle in which an egg is not prepared and released. Because a corpus luteum is not formed, the levels of progesterone will remain low in the second half of the cycle and the cycle will have no luteal phase.
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Anovulation
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone
Abbreviated as FSH. An important pituitary hormone, one of two called gonadotrophins, which stimulate the ovaries during the premenopausal years.
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