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  • noun Surgical removal of the fallopian tube.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The excision of a Fallopian tube.

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  • noun surgery Surgical removal of the Fallopian tubes

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  • noun surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes

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Examples

  • In the case of women a similar operation on the Fallopian tubes, which is known as salpingectomy, is an abdominal operation and cannot be said to be entirely free from danger, although it is not regarded as very serious.

    Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders

  • October 8th, 2004 at 5:21 am mythago, I think that in practice (as I said above) what happens (which I have invormally verified) is that the Catholic Church allows the removal of the fetus when the fallopian tube is also removed (salpingectomy).

    The Overreach of Abortion Bans 2004

  • The procedure under review in Buck was not hysterectomy but salpingectomy, the cutting of a fallopian tube.

    Quick, paranoid thought on banning abortion nationwide 2004

  • The salpingectomy was done when she came into the infirmary for treatment of an irritable bowel.

    Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

  • The development of salpingectomy cutting and tying the fallopian tubes and vasectomy in the 1890s provided a relatively simple and safe technology.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • The development of salpingectomy cutting and tying the fallopian tubes and vasectomy in the 1890s provided a relatively simple and safe technology.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • The analogous operation of salpingectomy in women is an abdominal operation, but the risk is not considered serious.

    Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders

  • This operation, which has gained wide attention in recent years under the name of "sterilization," usually takes the form of vasectomy in man and salpingectomy in woman; it is desirable that the reader should have a clear understanding of its nature.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • What's worst, Alberta seems to have jumped on the bandwagon that categorically prevents coverage for treatment of gender identity disorder when the majority of these treatments (breast augmentation or removal, hormone therapy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, and salpingectomy) are covered for other medical conditions.

    unknown title 2009

  • What's worst, Alberta seems to have jumped on the bandwagon that categorically prevents coverage for treatment of gender identity disorder when the majority of these treatments (breast augmentation or removal, hormone therapy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, and salpingectomy) are covered for other medical conditions.

    unknown title 2009

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