Fallopian tube

See also: fallopian tube

English

Alternative forms

• fallopian tube

Etymology

Early 18th century: from Fallopius (“latinized form of the name of Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – October 9, 1562), the Italian anatomist and physician who first described them”) +‎ -an + tube.

Illustration of the fallopian tube and ovary.

Noun

Fallopian tube (plural Fallopian tubes)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two ducts through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus.

Synonyms

• gonaduct
• oviduct
• salpinx
• uterine tube

Hypernyms

• Müllerian duct - embryological precursor
• internal genitalia

Translations

duct

• Arabic: قَنَاةُ الرَّحِمِ f (qanātu r-raḥimi)

  Egyptian Arabic: قناة فالوب f (qanāt fālūb)

• Armenian: արգանդափող (argandapʻoġ), ֆալոպյան փող (falopyan pʻoġ), ձվատար (hy) (jvatar)
• Catalan: trompa de Fal·lopi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輸卵管／输卵管 (zh) (shūluǎnguǎn)

• Czech: vejcovod (cs) m
• Danish: æggeleder (da)
• Dutch: eileider (nl) m
• Esperanto: ovodukto
• Finnish: munanjohdin (fi), munatorvi (fi)
• French: trompe de Fallope (fr) f, oviducte (fr) m
• Galician: trompa de Falopio (gl) f
• German: Eileiter (de) m, Ovidukt (de) m
• Greek: σάλπιγγα (el) f (sálpinga)

  Ancient: πλεκτάνη f (plektánē)

• Hebrew: חֲצוֹצְרָה (he) f (ẖatzotzrá)
• Hindi: गर्भनली f (garbhanlī), डिम्बवाहिनियां (ḍimbavāhiniyā̃)
• Hungarian: petevezeték (hu), méhkürt (hu)
• Icelandic: eggrás f, eggjagöng n pl, legpípa f, eggjaleiðari m
• Inuktitut: ᐃᒡᓕᐊᑉ ᐊᑦᑐᖏᖓ (icliap attonginga)
• Italian: tuba di Falloppio f
• Japanese: 輸卵管 (ゆらんかん, yurankan), 卵管 (ja) (らんかん, rankan), らっぱ管 (らっぱかん, rappakan)
• Kazakh: жұмыртқа жолы (jūmyrtqa joly)
• Korean: 나팔관 (ko) (napalgwan), 난관(卵管) (ko) (nan'gwan), 자궁관 (jagunggwan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: coga hêkê f, coga Falloppio f

• Latvian: olvads m
• Maori: pūkano, pūkākano
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eggleder m

• Polish: jajowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: tuba uterina (pt) f, trompa de falópio f
• Romanian: oviduct (ro) n, trompă uterină f
• Russian: фалло́пиева труба́ (ru) f (fallópijeva trubá), ма́точная труба́ f (mátočnaja trubá), яйцево́д (ru) m (jajcevód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јајовод m

  Roman: jajovod (sh) m

• Spanish: trompa de Falopio f
• Swahili: futuza (sw)
• Swedish: äggledare (sv)
• Tagalog: anurang-itlog
• Thai: ท่อนำไข่ (tôr nam kài)
• Turkish: fallopi tüpü, fallop tüpü (tr)
• Ukrainian: яйцепрові́д (uk) m (jajceprovíd)
• Vietnamese: noan quản (卵管)
• Volapük: nögameat