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Fallopian Tubes

"Fallopian Tubes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A pair of highly specialized muscular canals extending from the UTERUS to its corresponding OVARY. They provide the means for OVUM collection, and the site for the final maturation of gametes and FERTILIZATION. The fallopian tube consists of an interstitium, an isthmus, an ampulla, an infundibulum, and fimbriae. Its wall consists of three histologic layers: serous, muscular, and an internal mucosal layer lined with both ciliated and secretory cells.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fallopian Tubes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Fallopian Tubes" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 88 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2009
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