: of, relating to, or involving a tube and especially a fallopian tube
tubal infection
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Renal cancer, nephritis, and kidney tubal tissue injury are just some of the conditions that were initially excluded because of a lack of available scientific data connecting them to radiation exposure.
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Time, 21 July 2023
Vasectomies and tubal ligations can be reversed in some cases, although success rates vary widely.
—Elizabeth Hintz, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
But more than 90% of ectopic pregnancies are tubal.
—Amy Alspaugh, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
Carrying tubal pregnancies to term is nearly impossible because a fertilized egg won’t survive long attached to locations outside the uterus.
—Amy Alspaugh, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
That means, for example, that the standard of care applicable to tubal ligations, which is that they should be performed as part of the same procedure as a Caesarian section, can’t be met at Catholic hospitals.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
In the days following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, clinics began to report a surge in people requesting tubal ligations—more commonly known as getting one’s tubes tied.
—Wired, 7 July 2022
Rosenfeld eventually joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, becoming a specialist in tubal reversal, and, in the early eighties, taking charge of the clinic in the center of town.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022
This shifting gender pattern resulted from a rising concern about the fitness to parent, with a focus on mothering, as well as the development of a safer, standardized tubal-ligation procedure for sterilizing women.
—New York Times, 8 June 2022
Time, 21 July 2023
Vasectomies and tubal ligations can be reversed in some cases, although success rates vary widely.
—Elizabeth Hintz, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
But more than 90% of ectopic pregnancies are tubal.
—Amy Alspaugh, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
Carrying tubal pregnancies to term is nearly impossible because a fertilized egg won’t survive long attached to locations outside the uterus.
—Amy Alspaugh, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
That means, for example, that the standard of care applicable to tubal ligations, which is that they should be performed as part of the same procedure as a Caesarian section, can’t be met at Catholic hospitals.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
In the days following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, clinics began to report a surge in people requesting tubal ligations—more commonly known as getting one’s tubes tied.
—Wired, 7 July 2022
Rosenfeld eventually joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, becoming a specialist in tubal reversal, and, in the early eighties, taking charge of the clinic in the center of town.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022
This shifting gender pattern resulted from a rising concern about the fitness to parent, with a focus on mothering, as well as the development of a safer, standardized tubal-ligation procedure for sterilizing women.
—New York Times, 8 June 2022
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tubal
adjective
tub·al
ˈt(y)ü-bəl 
: of, relating to, or involving a tube and especially a fallopian tube
tubal lumens
a tubal infection
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