What is "ovulation"?

What is "ovulation"?

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Ovulation is the release of an egg from the ovary. Ovulation occurs typically once a month. In a woman who has regular, twenty-eight day cycles, ovulation occurs on day fourteen. Day zero is the first day of your period, day fourteen you'd ovulate. Now women don't always have regular cycles, but ovulation always will occur fourteen days before your period starts. But nobody can predict the future. So, you don't know when your next period is going to be if your cycles are every 47, 32, 19 days. You don't have any regularity, you can't predict when ovulation will occur. So there's other ways that you're going to have to devise methods to determine if you're ovulating, but ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovary.