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Egg's route
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oviduct
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A third group act as temporary recipients, incubating the newly reconstructed embryos within their oviducts until they reach the blastocyst stage. ▪ Hence the oocytes are flushed out of the oviducts from below-they are not sucked ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1757, from Modern Latin oviductus , from ovi ductus "channel of an egg;" see egg (n.) + duke (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus [syn: Fallopian tube , uterine tube ]
Usage examples of oviduct.
One minor physiological variation between humans and cows or sheep was very significant for my purposes: In human females the length of the oviducts before they unite to form the corpus uteri is short, leaving less time and space to catch the fertilized egg before it reaches the endometrium and undergoes impregnation there: at which point there can be no hope of transplantation.
The delicate cells lining the interior of the oviducts were helpless in the face of the sudden invading horde.
Female but not male birds possess an oviduct of which one portion secretes albumin (the egg white protein), another portion makes the inner and outer shell membranes, and still another makes the eggshell itself.