Ovarian artery

The ovarian arteries are two slender vessels of considerable length, and arise from the front of the aorta a little below the renal arteries. Each ovarian artery passes obliquely downward and lateralward behind the peritoneum, resting on the Psoas major, the right ovarian artery lying in front of the inferior vena cava and behind the middle colic and ileocolic arteries and the terminal part of the ileum, the left ovarian artery artery behind the left colic and sigmoid arteries and the iliac colon.

On arriving at the upper opening of the lesser pelvis, the ovarian artery passes inward, between the two layers of the ovariopelvic ligament and of the broad ligament of the uterus, to be distributed to the ovary.

Small branches are given to the ureter and the uterine tube, and one passes on to the side of the uterus, and unites with the uterine artery. Other offsets are continued on the round ligament of the uterus, through the inguinal canal, to the integument of the labium majus and groin. 

Compared to their corresponding arteries in male (the testicular arteries), the ovarian arteries supply the ovaries, are shorter than the testicular arteries , and do not pass out of the abdominal cavity.

At an early period of fetal life, when the testes or ovaries lie by the side of the vertebral column, below the kidneys, the internal spermatic or ovarian arteries are short; but with the descent of these organs into the scrotum or lesser pelvis, the arteries are gradually lengthened.