tubal
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈtjuːbəl/
- Specialized
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tubal
- Point of possible interest: some pro-lifers, including the Catholic hierarchy, accept full or partial salpingectomy (removal of the fallopian tube), as a morally acceptable medical intervention in the case of a tubal pregnancy.
- tubal ligation
- tubal pregnancy
Examples
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So I'm going to do the tubal method and it's ready where you pour a little bit of water into the bottom one.
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Across the continent, in a one-room hut in Uchiru village near Nairobi, Kenya, thirty-year-old "Sara" was scheduling an appointment for a tubal ligation.
Academic text (1998) -
When I did eventually get pregnant again, it was a tubal pregnancy.
Blog text (13) -
Three tubal steel assemblies attach to the tub.
Academic text (1999) -
X's mother died of an infection resulting from her tubal ligation.
Fiction book (1996) -
Three tubal pregnancies.
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A vasectomy isn't the same as a tubal ligation.
Blog text (6) -
And this is infertility, tubal pregnancies, chronic pain and cervical cancer.
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I had a tubal ligation, so I don't need an IUD, and hormones are too harsh for my blood pressure these days (the reason I got the tubal, actually).
Blog text (15) -
After her last pregnancy, she chose to have a tubal ligation to prevent future pregnancies.
Compounds
- Specialized
6
6.3
An operation that stops a woman getting pregnant by closing the tubes from her ovaries to her womb
- Specialized
1
7.4
A pregnancy where the fertilized egg grows in a Fallopian tube instead of the womb
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tubal comes from the same root as tube, which means 'a hollow pipe' or channel. So tubal means 'relating to a tube', as in the Fallopian tube or the small tube in the ear.