oviduct

English

Oviduct of a laying hen

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ōviductus. By surface analysis, ovi- +‎ duct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒvɪdʌkt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

oviduct (plural oviducts)

2. (anatomy, typically used in zoology) A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior.

Synonyms

• Fallopian tube
• gonaduct
• salpinx
• uterine tube

Derived terms

• oviducal
• oviductal

Translations

duct through which an ovum passes

• Arabic: قَنَاةُ الْبَيْض f (qanātu l-bayḍ)
• Armenian: ձվատար (hy) (jvatar)
• Belarusian: яйцаво́д m (jajcavód)
• Bulgarian: яйцепрово́д m (jajceprovód)
• Catalan: oviducte m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卵管 (zh) (luǎnguǎn)

• Czech: vejcovod (cs) m
• Danish: æggeleder (da)
• Dutch: eileider (nl) m
• Finnish: munanjohdin (fi)
• French: oviducte (fr) m
• German: Eileiter (de) m, Ovidukt (de) m
• Greek: ωαγωγός (el) m (oagogós)
• Hindi: डिम्बवाहिनी f (ḍimbavāhinī)
• Hungarian: petevezeték (hu)
• Irish: ubhaducht m
• Italian: ovidotto m
• Japanese: 輸卵管 (ja) (ゆらんかん, yurankan), 卵管 (ja) (らんかん, rankan)
• Korean: 난관(卵管) (ko) (nan'gwan)
• Macedonian: јајцевод m (jajcevod)
• Malay: oviduktus, saluran ovum
• Māori: pūkākano
• Marathi: बीजांडनळ्या f (bījāṇḍnaḷyā)
• Norwegian: eggleder
• Polish: jajowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: oviduto (pt) m
• Romanian: oviduct (ro) n
• Russian: яйцево́д (ru) m (jajcevód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јајовод m

  Latin: jajovod (sh) m

• Slovak: vajcovod m, vajíčkovod (sk) m, ovidukt m
• Slovene: jajcevod (sl) m
• Spanish: oviducto m
• Swedish: äggledare (sv)
• Ukrainian: яйцепрові́д (uk) m (jajceprovíd)
• Vietnamese: noan quản (卵管)
• Volapük: nögameat

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French oviducte.

Noun

oviduct n (plural oviducte)

1. oviduct

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	oviduct	oviductul	oviducte	oviductele
genitive-dative	oviduct	oviductului	oviducte	oviductelor
vocative	oviductule		oviductelor