| 单词 | womb trumpet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswomb trumpet womb trumpet n. [ < womb n. + trumpet n., after post-classical Latin tuba uteri (1645 or earlier); compare German Muttertrompete (1587) and also salpinx n.] now historical and rare the Fallopian tube; cf. salpinx n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > Fallopian tubes womb trumpet1663 Fallopian tube1676 oviduct1703 tubes1970 salpinx- 1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xxvii. 27/1 The Womb-trumpet, which others refer to the servatory and jaculatory Vessel. 1716 Rational Acct. Nat. Weaknesses Women (ed. 2) 61 The falling of one of the little Eggs from its Cell in the Ovaria, through one of the Womb Trumpets into the Womb, often occasions an uncommon Sensation and gentle shivering of the Body after the Conjugal Act. ?1785 S. Freeman Ladies Friend (ed. 3) xii. 144 There is some obstruction in the womb trumpets, which hinders the spiritous part of the male seed from passing through them to the ovaria. 1991 T. Dunlap tr. B. Duden Woman beneath Skin 231 (note) Although in Storch's eyes the women of Eisenach were already equipped with ovaries (and not merely ‘womb trumpets’), they clotted in the Aristotelian manner. < as lemmas |
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