Note 19 — I. THE SEXUAL EPOCH OF THE MENARCHE.
Eden Paul translation
It is by a certain abuse of terminology that the name follicle is given to these structures even before the appearance of fluid in their interior, the word folliculus meaning properly a little bag or sack. The author’s limitation of the term graafian follicle to the later, full-grown stage of these structures, though historically accurate, is not usual in England.—Tr.