{"id":7941,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fallopian_tubes\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:18","slug":"fallopian_tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fallopian_tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallopian tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bilaterally paired slender tubes, 3-4 inches in length (see first figure below), that allow for the egg to travel from the paired ovaries to the uterus during the menstrual cycle by means of muscular and wave-like ciliary action, with cilia covering the epithelium that lines the tubes. &nbsp;While fertilisation normally takes place in the tubes, if a fertilised ovum implants in a tube, or another area outside the uterus (e.g., abdomen, cervix), perhaps to due failure of the tubal cilia to perform their work, then an ectopic pregnancy occurs (see other figure below), which can lead to complications such as hemorrhaging. &nbsp;Named after the anatomist and their discoverer&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/2288.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/2288.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriele Falloppio or Fallopius<\/a> (1523-1562). &nbsp;Also known as the uterine tube, it is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/396903\/Mullerian-duct\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/396903\/Mullerian-duct&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M\u00fcllerian ducts<\/a> in vertebrates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image041.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fallopian tubes: the internal os and external os mark the upper and lower of the cervix. The endometrium is the glandular mucous membrane that lines the uterus, which gets sloughed off during menstruation, and then grows back and becomes increasingly thicker until the next period. The fimbriae are numerous irregular fringe-like processes at the distal (ovarian) end of a Fallopian tube into which a released ovum enters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image081.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ectopic pregnancy<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cilia\">Cilia<\/a>, <a href=\"epithelium\">Epithelium<\/a>, <a href=\"progesterone\">Progesterone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bilaterally paired slender tubes, 3-4 inches in length (see first figure below), that allow for the egg to travel from the paired ovaries to the uterus during the menstrual cycle by means of muscular and wave-like ciliary action, with cilia covering the epithelium that lines the tubes. &nbsp;While fertilisation normally takes place in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fallopian_tubes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallopian tubes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}