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Dumas, Alexandre (sh) and follicular fluid (medicine)


Dumas, Alexandre (sh)




known as Dumas pere

born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France
died Dec. 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe

French playwright and novelist.

Dumas's first Success was as a writer of melodramatic plays, including Napoleon Bonaparte (1831) and Antony (1831). His immensely popular novels, set in colourful historical backgrounds, include The Three Musketeers (1844), a romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu, and its sequel Twenty Years After (1845); The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45); and The Black Tulip (1850). His illegitimate son Alexandre Dumas (1824-95), called Dumas fils, is best known for his play La Dame aux camelias (1848), the basis of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata and later of several films titled Camille.


follicular fluid (medicine)


follicular fluid
<physiology> A fluid consisting of sex steroid hormones, plasma proteins, mucopolysaccharides, and electrolytes that is present in the vesicular ovarian follicle (graafian follicle) surrounding the ovum.