oviduct

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Synonyms for oviduct

either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus

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Oviducts were collected on GD2 (48 hr after hCG), and embryos were removed.
But one in six women who get the infection will suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease, which can cause chronic pelvic pain, infertility or ectopic pregnancy, where the egg is implanted outside the uterus, in the oviduct or fallopian tube.
Length of oviducts, (R + L)###PLW###39.07 +- 5.33###37.97a +- 5.96###41.08b +- 4.96
lecticularia is formed by a pair of ovaries connected to lateral oviducts, a common oviduct and a pair of spermatheca (Figure 1).
N1: without follicles, no clear differentiation between germarium and vitellarium; N2: ovarioles begin to differentiate (germarium and vitellarium), follicles begin to form but not yet mature; N3: ovarioles completely differentiated, proximal follicle mature and ready to be ovulated, no follicular relics present; PA: follicles in oviducts; PB: presence of follicular relics.
The fallopian tubes or oviducts are two muscular tubes which extend from uterus to the ovaries.
The reproductive system of a mature ommastrephid female consists of a single ovary, paired oviducts, and oviducal and nidamental glands.
Organ weights: Sacrificed animals of 3 groups (8 in each) were dissected and standard weights of ovaries, oviducts and uterine horns were calculated by the following formula: [organ weight (g)/ body weight (g)] x 100.
In some crabs, the position of the sperm packets in the dorsal or ventral opening of the oviducts might favor either the first or the last male to mate (for review see Diesel, 1991; McLay and Lopez Greco, 2011).
Of the hundreds of millions of sperm cells that begin the journey up the oviducts, only a few hardy travelers will ever reach their destination.
Their oviducts were then taken for histomorphological and immunohistochemical tests.