| 单词 | fallopian tube |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFallopian tube Fallopian tube n. [after post-classical Latin tuba Fallopiana (1638 or earlier)] either of the tubular structures through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus; also called uterine tube. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > Fallopian tubes womb trumpet1663 Fallopian tube1676 oviduct1703 tubes1970 salpinx- 1676 H. Nicholson Let. 10 May in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1986) XII. 284 When the eggs have gotten through the Fallopian Tubes into the cavity of the Uterus, they lye there loose for som time. 1762 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery (ed. 4) I. 113 The Fimbria of the Fallopian tube. 1842 Lancet 26 Feb. 735/2 The Fallopian tube is lined by a mucous membrane furnished with ciliate epithelium continuous..with that of the uterus. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 45 Camille is pregnant. She has obviously lost contact with her Fallopian tubes. 2004 Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 15/3 A long tube was pushed up through my cervix and dye was released into the fallopian tubes, which were X-rayed for blockages. Fallopian tube a. A hollow cylindrical vessel or organ in the animal body; a canal, duct, passage, or pipe, as in the circulatory, alimentary, respiratory, reproductive, or excretory systems; often preceded by a defining word, as alimentary tube, bronchial tube, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, intestinal tube, etc.: see these words. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal conduit1340 pipec1385 channela1387 porea1398 canal?a1425 cannel?1553 strait1558 canaliculus1661 tube1661 duct1667 tubule1677 ductus1699 funnel1712 cannule1719 infundibulum1799 meatus1800 tubulet1826 tubulus1826 canalicule1839 canalization1840 ductule1883 cf. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Tubo,..the pipe wherethrough the marrow of the backe bone runneth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tube, a Conduit~pipe; also, the hollow of the back-bone, or the pipe through which the marrow thereof doth runne.] 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Fallopian Tubes, two slender Passages proceeding from the Womb. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 114 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) Part of the Eustachian Tube. 1756 J. Wathen in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 215 I took that opportunity to examine the eustachian tube of each ear. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 400 The œsophagus..that animated tube. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xli. 128 Connected by a slender tube with each mandible in spiders is a vessel with spiral folds, which seems properly to belong to this head. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica xi. 407 Its passage in the intestinal tube is attended with the same phenomena. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 584 The main depôts of lymphocytes..are round the hollow tubes of the body. < as lemmas |
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