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oviduct Anat. and Zool.|ˈəʊvɪdʌkt|
[ad. med. or mod. anat. L. ōviductus = ōvī ductus, duct n. or channel of the egg.]
The duct or canal forming a passage for the ova or eggs from the ovary, esp. in oviparous animals, as birds; less commonly used of the corresponding structure in mammals (Fallopian tube, uterus, and vagina), or of its upper portion (Fallopian tube) alone.
[1672Phil. Trans. VII. 4052 The extremity of the Oviductus or Egg-channel ends in a membranous expansion in Birds. 1706Phillips, Oviductus (in Anat.), the Egg-passages, the same as Tubæ Fallopianæ.] 1757T. Birch Hist. Roy. Soc. III. 498 Its [the torpedo's] ovarium is near the liver and double oviduct and womb, wherein the young ones swim free. 1788Jenner in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 232 The membranes which had discharged yolks into the oviduct. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 49 Viviparous reproduction happens in a few..gastropods, through the retention of the eggs in the oviduct.
Hence oviˈductal a., pertaining to or of the nature of an oviduct, oviducal.
1860N. Syd. Soc. Year-Bk. Med. 117 On the Aquiferous and Oviductal Systems in the Lamellibranchiate Molluscs. |