. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. FALLOPIAN TUBE OR OVIDUCT — (FUNCTIONS). as the arteries of the tube, frequently an- astomose with one another by transverse branches, which serve to connect together the two principal trunks. These gather the returning blood arid carry it into the plexus of uterine veins placed along the sides of the uterus. The lymphatics of the tube have the same common source as those supplying the rest of the internal generative organ. The nerves, which are very slender, follow the course of the arteries. They are de- rived, accordi
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. FALLOPIAN TUBE OR OVIDUCT — (FUNCTIONS). as the arteries of the tube, frequently an- astomose with one another by transverse branches, which serve to connect together the two principal trunks. These gather the returning blood arid carry it into the plexus of uterine veins placed along the sides of the uterus. The lymphatics of the tube have the same common source as those supplying the rest of the internal generative organ. The nerves, which are very slender, follow the course of the arteries. They are de- rived, according to Dr. Snow Beck, from the hypogastric and aortic plexuses. FUNCTIONS ot THE FALLOPIAN TUBE. It has long been determined, with as much precision as the nature of the subject appar- ently admits, that the Fallopian tube performs the double office of receiving the ova from the ovary, and conveying them into the uterus, and of receiving the spermatic fluid from the uterus and conveying it in the direction of the ovary : the tube itself being, if not con- stantly, at least generally, the seat of im- pregnation ; or, in other words, the precise spot in which the material contact of the male and female generative elements takes place. These conclusions regarding the offices of the oviduct, are deducible from various ob- servations and experiments, both of a positive and negative kind, made upon mammalian animals, and the close correspondence which has been observed between these and similar observations, so far as they can be made upon the human female, leads also to the conclusion that there is little or no material difference between the mode in which these offices are performed in man and in the mammalia generally. 605 With regard to the demonstrative evidence furnished by experiments and observations upon animals, as well as by observations upon the human subject, relative to the pre- cise offices of the oviduct in the conveyance of the ova from the ovary, the following poi
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