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Fallopian tube
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Fallopian tube

In mammals, one of two tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. An egg is fertilized by sperm in the Fallopian tubes, which are lined with cells whose cilia move the egg towards the uterus.
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State Pathologist Eleni Antoniou explained that that she had suffered, "a rupture of the salpinx, or fallopian tube" and that such events "are extremely rare, affecting one in 15,000 pregnant women.
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