Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fallopian \Fal*lo"pi*an\, a. [From Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of Modena, who died in 1562.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706 in reference to the Fallopian tubes, from Latinized form of the name of Gabriello Fallopio (1523-1562), Italian anatomist who first described them.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of Fallopian English)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fallopian".
Satisfied with her intervention, she flowed the blastocyst down her fallopian tubes where it locked onto the wall of her uterus.
Naomi had undergone surgery to deal with endometriosis, then another surgery to open a blocked Fallopian tube.
It takes approximately twenty-four hours for the fertilized ova to drop from the ovaries through the Fallopian tubes into the suitably stimulated endometrium of the uterus.
Memorial and gotten one of the women to start a search for cases of granulomatous obstruction of the fallopian tubes.
The hysterosalpingogram is an X-ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes.
Vast areas of the delicate mucosal lining of the fallopian tubes had been destroyed by the immunological reaction.
At every menstruation these organs throw off a germ-cell, which passes through the Fallopian tubes into the uterine cavity.
In the case of women a similar operation on the Fallopian tubes, which is known as salpingectomy, is an abdominal operation and cannot be said to be entirely free from danger, although it is not regarded as very serious.
Marissa had been told that her fallopian tube biopsy had been forwarded there.
Reading on in the article, Marissa noted that the diagnosis had been made by the histology of fallopian tube biopsy alone since no organisms had been seen or cultured.
I found out today that the only concentration of cases of TB of the fallopian tubes like Wendy and I have is in Brisbane, Australia.
Someone found out that the rural Chinese doctors had been clever enough to develop a way of cannula ting the fallopian tubes without the need for anesthesia.
She knew that to cannulate the fallopian tubes, the cervix had to be dilated, and dilating the cervix was excruciatingly painful.
It took her the better part of a day to flow ovaries, fallopian tubes, a uterus, cervix, and vulva and to rearrange her vagina.
A defect in one fallopian tube and an ectopic pregnancy in the other made it impossible for me to conceive in utero.