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.
However, the ovaries might also be removed as a companion procedure to a hysterectomy, if medically necessary. In premenopausal women, removal of the ovaries during a hysterectomy leads to a sudden drop in the levels of the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone -- a situation known as surgical menopause.