How to Use oviduct in a Sentence

oviduct

noun
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  • Flight narrows the oviduct, which changes the type of egg a bird can lay.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 22 June 2017
  • The problem is, the female may have mated with other males, who left their sperm packets in her oviduct.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2015
  • Alternatively, bacteria in the hen's ovary or oviduct can get to the egg before the shell forms around it.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 12 May 2018
  • When that process is working correctly, one yolk at a time is released into her oviduct.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
  • When a bird begins creating an egg, the animal pumps the egg through an oviduct, a passageway of glands like a factory line.
    — Ben Guarino, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • Larger males mate with a female in the traditional way (for a squid), depositing packets of their sperm inside her oviduct.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
  • And in some of these caecilians, scientists have found that the young will begin feeding on their mother before being born by gnawing away at the swollen lining of her oviduct.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • The researchers tried again, inserting the family’s genetic variant into the DNA of a mouse egg, injecting that into the coils of a mother’s oviduct.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022
  • But the working theory is that they are forged when ovulation occurs too rapidly or when one yolk catches up with another slow-moving yolk in a hen’s oviduct.
    — Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2018
  • These masses are caused by salpingitis, an inflammation of the chicken's oviduct cause by an infection.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2017
  • These masses are caused by salpingitis, an inflammation of the chicken's oviduct cause by an infection.
    — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2017
  • During mating, consorts will try to court a female by flashing vibrant colors across their bodies; if successful, a consort will place a packet of sperm, called a spermatophore, into the female’s oviduct, a tube that leads to her ovaries.
    — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2011
  • The team created a mathematical model to simulate how a bird’s oviduct—a passageway that spits out eggs like a human Fallopian tube—might create different egg shapes before the shell is formed.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017

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