FALLOPIUS, GABRIEL


Meaning of FALLOPIUS, GABRIEL in English

Italian Gabriello Fallopio

born 1523, Modena

died Oct. 9, 1562, Padua

Italian anatomist.

He contributed greatly to knowledge of the ear and reproductive system. His observations of the dissection of cadavers are outlined in Observationes anatomicae (1561). He discovered the fallopian tubes, which connect the ovaries to the uterus, and several major nerves of the head and face. He described the semicircular canals in the ear and named the vagina, placenta, clitoris, palate, and cochlea. He and Galen 's principles, a development essential to Renaissance medicine.

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