Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, at Yonkers Professional Hospital, Dr. Maraventano and his assistants went to work, in an operation lasting three hours. The operation revealed a true testicle in the left side of the groin. In the pelvis, there were an undifferentiated "boggy mass" and suggestions of vestigial Fallopian tubes, but no true uterus and no ovarian tissue. By plastic surgery...
...Some gynecologists blame blocked Fallopian tubes (which carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus) for infertility in 26% to 50% of their cases. Not so, says Dr. Stallworthy. He found "apparent blockage" in 21.6%, but reduced that to 12.8% by such antispasmodic (relaxing) drugs as nitroglycerin, later lowered the rate to 9% in a smaller series of cases. Some of the blocking reported by other doctors is due, he thinks, to temporary spasms caused by their own instruments. Spasms caused by emotions may cause blocking in other cases. He suggests: "Is it not probable that a woman may deprive...
...sterility, 5% were virgins who had no idea that there was anything amiss.* These "somewhat startling figures" should awaken doctors to the need of giving better guidance on sexual matters, "even though it is much less dramatic than performing plastic operations of varying degrees of ingenuity on already disorganized Fallopian tubes...
Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...
...Abdominal pregnancy results from a freakish failure of the fertilized egg to pass through a Fallopian tube to the uterus. The placenta attaches itself, like a parasite, to abdominal organs or membranes. The pregnancy is painful because the placenta irritates the tissues and the baby kicks the nerve-rich peritoneum (abdominal lining). When they discover the condition, doctors usually operate at once...