Back موه البوق Arabic Hydrosalpinx German Hidrosalpinx Spanish هیدروسالپنکس Persian Hydrosalpinx French Hidrosalping ID Idrosalpinge Italian 卵管水腫 Japanese 난관수종 Korean Гидросальпинкс Russian
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A hydrosalpinx is a condition that occurs when a fallopian tube is blocked and fills with serous or clear fluid near the ovary (distal to the uterus). The blocked tube may become substantially distended giving the tube a characteristic sausage-like or retort-like shape. The condition is often bilateral and the affected tubes may reach several centimeters in diameter. The blocked tubes cause infertility. A fallopian tube filled with blood is a hematosalpinx, and with pus a pyosalpinx.[1]
Hydrosalpinx is a composite of the Greek words ὕδωρ (hydōr – "water"[2]) and σάλπιγξ (sálpinx – "trumpet"[2]); its plural is hydrosalpinges.
- ^ "Hydrosalpinx". www.reproductivefacts.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ a b Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.