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terior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct.

The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoöphoron.

in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.

A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.

The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.