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What (who) is oviduct - definition

PASSAGEWAY FROM THE OVARIES, IN VERTEBRATES OTHER THAN MAMMALS
Oviducts; Oviducal gland

oviduct         
['??v?d?kt]
¦ noun Anatomy & Zoology the tube through which an ovum or egg passes from an ovary.
Derivatives
oviducal -'dju:k(?)l adjective
oviductal adjective
Oviduct         
·noun A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.
Oviduct         
The oviduct in mammals, is the passageway from an ovary. In human females this is more usually known as the Fallopian tube or uterine tube.

Wikipedia

Oviduct

The oviduct in mammals, is the passageway from an ovary. In human females this is more usually known as the Fallopian tube or uterine tube. The eggs travel along the oviduct. These eggs will either be fertilized by spermatozoa to become a zygote, or will degenerate in the body. Normally, these are paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

Except in teleosts, the oviduct is not directly in contact with the ovary. Instead, the most anterior portion ends in a funnel-shaped structure called the infundibulum, which collects eggs as they are released by the ovary into the body cavity.

The only female vertebrates to lack oviducts are the jawless fishes. In these species, the single fused ovary releases eggs directly into the body cavity. The fish eventually extrudes the eggs through a small genital pore towards the rear of the body.

Examples of use of oviduct
1. If the same was true in humans then smoking cannabis might mean "that pre–implantation embryo development will be abnormal and that the embryo might get trapped in the oviduct instead of going to the uterus", he said.
2. The researchers later killed the mice and found that the embryos in all of them had been held up in the oviduct, the tube linking the ovary to the uterus.