What it means
The root in words about the fallopian tubes, which carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus, and, less often, the eustachian tube of the ear. Salpingitis is inflammation of a fallopian tube, a salpingectomy is removal of a tube, and a salpingo-oophorectomy removes a tube and an ovary.
At a glance
| Also written | salpingo-, salping- |
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Related terms
-itis
A word ending that means inflammation.
gynecology
The branch of medicine that cares for the female reproductive organs and breasts.
fertilization
The joining of a sperm and an egg to form a single new cell, the start of a pregnancy.