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tubal, a.|ˈtjuːbəl| [f. L. tub-us tube + -al1.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tube; consisting of tubes; tubular. rare.
1735–6H. Brooke Univ. Beauty iv. 126 Its wanton floods the tubal system lave. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 46 In the early tubal form of the heart, the auricles are placed below..the ventricles. 2. Anat. and Path. Pertaining to, occurring in, or affecting the Fallopian tube, as tubal dropsy, tubal pregnancy, the bronchial tubes, as tubal cough, tubal respiration, or the renal tubules, as tubal nephritis; tubal ligation, ligation of the Fallopian tubes, esp. as a method of sterilization.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 181 Eccyesis Tubalis, Tubal Exfetation. 1857Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 244 Having been once deposited in the tubal canal, the ovule traverses its whole length, and falls into the uterine cavity. Ibid. 246 Tubal Pregnancy..is the most frequent of all the varieties of extra-uterine pregnancy. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Murmur, Respiratory, The respiration, perceived over the trachea and bronchia in health, is called tracheal or bronchial or tubal,..according to the situation in which it is heard. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tubal Cough, see Bronchial Cough. 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 276 Tubal nephritis..is one of those morbid processes which constitute Bright's disease. 1890Billings Med. Dict. s.v., T[ubal] dropsy, hydrosalpinx. 1948H. S. & R. J. Crossen Operative Gynecol. (ed. 6) 991/2 (Index), Tubal ligation. 1961Biol. Abstr. XXXVI. 5391/2 (heading) Histological studies on the change of the adrenal cortex by means of the oophorectomy and tubal ligation in rabbits. 1975New Yorker 29 Sept. 84/3 Mrs. Santana had intended to get a tubal ligation after Gabriel's birth. |