Salping Health Dictionary

Inflammation of the fallopian tubes. (See PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE.)... salpingitis

Surgical removal of a Fallopian tube (see FALLOPIAN TUBES) and its accompanying ovary (see OVARIES).... salpingo-oöphorectomy

Radiography (see X-RAYS) of one or both FALLOPIAN TUBES after radio-opaque material has been injected into them via the UTERUS.... salpingography

Surgical removal of one or both fallopian tubes.

Salpingectomy may be performed if the tube is infected (see salpingitis) or to treat ectopic pregnancy.

(See also salpingo-oophorectomy.)... salpingectomy

A prefix indicating a connection with either the FALLOPIAN TUBES or the EUSTACHIAN TUBES. ... salpingo-

n. a surgical operation carried out to restore patency to blocked Fallopian tubes; it involves the *division and removal of adhesions around the ovarian ends of the tubes.... salpingolysis

n. inflammation of a Fallopian tube and an ovary.... salpingo-oophoritis

n. the operation performed to restore free passage through a blocked Fallopian tube. The blocked portion of the tube is removed surgically and the continuity is then restored. It is performed in women who have been sterilized previously by tubal occlusion (see sterilization) and in others whose Fallopian tubes have become blocked as a result of pelvic infection.... salpingostomy