fal|lo|pi|an tubes

fal|lo|pi|an tubes
fal|lo|pi|an tubes «fuh LOH pee uhn»,
a pair of slender tubes through which ova from the ovaries pass to the uterus.
[< Gabriel Fallopio, 1523-1562, Italian anatomist, who described them + -an]

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