OVIDUCT
\ˈə͡ʊvɪdˌʌkt], \ˈəʊvɪdˌʌkt], \ˈəʊ_v_ɪ_d_ˌʌ_k_t]\
Definitions of OVIDUCT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.
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A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.
By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The tube which carries the eggs from the ovary to the exterior ; the Mullerian duct ; the tube may or may not be attached to the ovary.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : fallopian tube. A muscular tube, usually about 4 in. long, passing from a cornu of the uterus in a lateral direction and opening into the peritoneal cavity. It is muscular and lined with mucous membrane showing longitudinal folds and covered with ciliated epithelium. It serves to convey the ovum into the cavity of the uterus. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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