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Webster 1913 Edition


Graafian

Graaf′i-an

,
Adj.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or discovered by,
Regnier de
Graaf
, a Dutch physician.
Graafian follicles
or vesicles, small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged.