What is "ovulation"?

What is "ovulation"?

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Ovulation is when from several candidate eggs, or follicles, one grows and becomes a mature. Then this will open or pop and release an egg and that is called ovulation. Now that may take anywhere between two, three, or four weeks, in different women, but usually the average time interval of ovulation is two to three weeks.