FALLOPIAN TUBE Definition & Meaning

fallopian tube

Or Fallo·pian tube

[fuh-loh-pee-uhn]

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one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.

Fallopian tube

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either of a pair of slender tubes through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus in female mammals See oviduct

fallopian tube

Either of a pair of long, slender tubes found in female mammals that carry egg cells from the ovaries to the uterus.

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1700–10; named after Gabriello Fallopio (died 1562), Italian anatomist; -ian

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C18: named after Gabriello Fallopio (1523–62), Italian anatomist who first described the tubes

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It also stayed attached to the left fallopian tube and cervix.

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Six months later she was diagnosed with the cancer after doctors found a mass in her left fallopian tube while treating her for appendicitis.

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Traveling the familiar subway route on autopilot, I grieved the life waning in my fallopian tube and feared the outcome.

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She needed an urgent hysterectomy to remove her womb as well as some of her cervix, a fallopian tube and an ovary, plus part of her bladder.

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She lost part of her fallopian tube.

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