Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...
...Pipeline. Sterilization operations for men and women are based on the same strategy: cutting the tubes that carry the sex cells on their paths toward junction and conception. In the woman, the Fallopian tubes−through which the egg cells travel from the ovaries toward the uterus−are hidden in the pelvic cavity of the lower abdomen. Before recent technical advances they were relatively difficult for the surgeon to reach. In the man, a tube called the vas deferens (literally, the "carrying-away vessel") arises from each testicle to carry the spermatozoa to the prostate gland where the seminal...
...Fallopian Fallacy. But when Nelson lined up his witnesses, adamant critics outnumbered defenders by seven to one. Most conspicuously missing from the roster was Harvard's Dr. John Rock, co-developer of the Pill, a conscientious Roman Catholic and a thoughtful advocate of research to reduce the Pill's admitted and harmful side effects...
...cause cancer in animals. There is no reason," Davis insisted, "to presume that the single exception will turn out to be the oral contraceptives." Neither Nelson nor the only other Senator present, New Hampshire's Thomas J. Mclntyre, caught Davis up on what might be called a Fallopian fallacy: while it is correct to say that everything known to cause cancer in man also causes cancer in animals, the converse is not true...