Word: fallopian
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...length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was so large that we could not take it away entire . . . We cut open the tumor [and] took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous substance. After which we cut through the Fallopian tube, and extracted the sack, which weighed seven pounds and a half . . . The operation was completed in about 25 minutes. We then turned her upon her left side, so as to permit the blood to escape; after which we closed the external opening. In five days I visited her, and much...
...like this," said the obstetrician to colleagues in the staff lounge: "A Rubin test had shown the Fallopian tubes to be patent, and a Hühner test showed normal sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick...
...Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), who identified the vulvovaginal lubricating glands; Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), a versatile anatomist; Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924), who perfected the head-down, hips-up position for surgery on the pelvis; Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958), who devised a way of blowing C02 through the Fallopian tubes as a fertility test; and the team of Selmar Aschheim, 80, and Bernhard Zondek, 67, whose mouse test has answered-millions of times, quickly and accurately-the question: "Am I pregnant...
...gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...
...Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into the abdominal cavity. This explained the seizure during dishwashing. Gradually the fetus had become completely calcined...