The Fallopian tubes, also known as uterine tubes, salpinges (singular salpinx), or oviducts, are tubes that stretch from the ovaries to the uterus, in the human female reproductive system. In other mammals they are called oviducts.
A fertilized egg passes through the Fallopian tubes from the ovaries to the uterus. The Fallopian tubes are lined with simple columnar epithelium with hair-like extensions called cilia which carry the fertilized egg.
The name comes from the Catholic priest and anatomist Gabriele Falloppio, for whom other anatomical structures are also named.
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