The appreciation of the form of an object by means of touch. stereognosis. 1. the faculty of perceiving and understanding the form and nature of objects by the sense of touch. stereognosis. 1 the faculty of perceiving and understanding the form and nature of objects by the sense of touch.
If the ovaries are surgically removed, a woman does not have a natural source of estrogen, and she enters surgical menopause, which can also be early menopause. Early natural menopause, on the other hand, occurs if a woman stops getting her period and her estrogen production drops before she is 45.
A hysterectomy that removes your uterus but not your ovaries (partial hysterectomy) usually doesn't cause immediate menopause. Although you no longer have periods, your ovaries still release eggs and produce estrogen and progesterone. But surgery that removes both your uterus and your ovaries (total hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy) does cause menopause, without any transitional phase.