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salpingian

salpingian adjective: synonym of salpingeal.

Adjective

salpingian (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of salpingeal.
    • If there be a salpingian cyst instead of an ovarian cystoma, let the operation of removal go on.1890, Andrew Jackson Howe, Operative Gynaecology, page 218
    • It must, however, be considered in this connection that, as already suggested, it is possible that the discharge of virulent urethritis may lose its purulent and ordinary ifectious qualities as far as its capacity for imparting acute vaginitis is concerned, but may nevertheless become transformed...1895, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Twentieth Century Practice: Diseases of the uropoietic system, page 483
    Synonyms:
    salpingeal

Synonyms of salpingian

Origin of salpingian

From salping- (“salpinx”) + -ian.

Questions about salpingian

What does salpingian mean?
Salpingian means synonym of salpingeal.
What part of speech is salpingian?
Salpingian is an adjective.

Words near salpingian in the dictionary

  1. salping-
  2. salpingeal
  3. salpingectomies
  4. salpingectomy
  5. salpinges
  6. salpingian
  7. salpingid
  8. salpingids
  9. salpingitic
  10. salpingitides
  11. salpingitis

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