Anat. [f. Fallopi-us (latinized name of an Italian anatomist 1523–1562) + -AN.] Used in the names of certain anatomical structures reputed to have been discovered by Fallopius, as in Fallopian aqueduct, arch, canal, ligament, tube: see quots.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fallopian Tubes, (in Anat.) two slender Vessels on each side of the Womb, which take Name from the first Discoverer Fallopius; and whose Use is to afford a Passage to the more subtil Part of the Genitura Masculina, into the Parts call’d Ovaria.
1754–64. Smellie, Midwif., I. 113. The Fimbria of the Fallopian tube.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 55. There is a hole, named stylo-mastoid (foramen stylo-mastoideum), which terminates the Fallopian aqueduct, and transmits the facial nerve from the interior of the cranium.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Fallopian Tubes. Anat. Name given to two canals inclosed in the peritoneum, named after Fallopius as their discoverer, communicating from the sides of the Fundus uteri to the ovaries.
1877. Burnett, Ear, 88. The fallopian canal, appears at first as a simple broad groove in the tympanum.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Fallopian arch, a name for Poupart’s ligament.
