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Her ovaries are pulled outside her body, and a catheter full of embryos is plunged into her oviduct.
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Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The embryos were nourished by a milk-like substance secreted in the oviduct.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
It’s been known for decades that some live-bearing caecilian species produce a secretion in their oviducts to nourish their young internally, thanks to earlier research from Wake.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
But one female failed to ovulate, another had complications with her egg, and sperm for the third had lost much of its motility—its ability to travel into the oviduct and fertilize an egg—during shipment to the zoo, all of which made pregnancy less likely.
—Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
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Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The embryos were nourished by a milk-like substance secreted in the oviduct.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
It’s been known for decades that some live-bearing caecilian species produce a secretion in their oviducts to nourish their young internally, thanks to earlier research from Wake.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
But one female failed to ovulate, another had complications with her egg, and sperm for the third had lost much of its motility—its ability to travel into the oviduct and fertilize an egg—during shipment to the zoo, all of which made pregnancy less likely.
—Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
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“Oviduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oviduct. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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oviduct
noun
ovi·duct
ˈō-və-ˌdəkt 
: a tube for the passage of eggs from the ovary of an animal
Etymology
from scientific Latin oviductus "oviduct," from Latin ovi- "egg" (from ovum "egg") and Latin ductus "tube, duct"
Medical Definition
oviduct
noun
ovi·duct
ˈō-və-ˌdəkt
: a tube that allows for the passage of eggs from an ovary
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