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Definition of Oviducts
1. oviduct [n] - See also: oviduct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oviducts
Literary usage of Oviducts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Of the oviducts. All oviparous animals* have one or two oviducts. Fowls have one.
The amphibia and lizard-kind have two. These have nothing like a uterus or ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873)
"... communicated at the 19th of June Meeting of the Boston Society of Natural
History. I had before seen the ciliary lining of the oviducts in Lingula and ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873)
"... communicated at the 19th of June Meeting of the Boston Society of Natural
History. I had before seen the ciliary lining of the oviducts in Lingula and ..."
4. A Handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women by Edward John Tilt (1868)
"The oviducts are sometimes obstructed by thick mucus ; and it was suggested ...
unanimous against any attempts to inject the oviducts with medicated fluids, ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"THE oviducts. The oviducts, or fallopian tubes,1 are enclosed within the upper
free border of the broad ligaments, and serve as a communication be- Fio. ..."
6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1885)
"ADDITIONAL NOTE ON THE oviducts OF THE GREENLAND SHARK ... published in this
Journal1 a note on the oviducts of the Greenland shark. ..."
7. Manual of Human Histology by Albert Kölliker, George Busk (1854)
"oviducts and uterus.—Of the three coats of the oviduct, ... The uterus is
constituted in the same way as the oviducts, except that the muscular coat and ..."