Fallopian

[John Lundy]

The "ian" was around long before that, David. Churchillian, Shavian, Bavarian even.

On Thursday, 30 August 2001 18:19, Dave Monroe [SMTP:davidmmonroe at yahoo.com] wrote:
> I've a sneaking suspicion that it was Joseph Heller's
> Catch-22 (1960) that established that "-ian" (as in
> "Yossarian") ending as the marker of the Armenian
> surname in the American popular--or, at any rate,
> literary--imagination, cf. Fergus Mixolydian, the
> Irish Armenian Jew in V., but ...
> 
> fal.lo.pi.an tube
> f&-'lO-pE-&n-
> noun
> often capitalized F
> Gabriel Fallopius died 1562 Italian anatomist
> circa 1706
> : either of the pair of tubes conducting the egg from
> the ovary to the uterus.
> 
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
> 
> http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/sex/common/ibank/ibank/0009b.jpg
> 
> "Fallopius, Gabriel (1523-1562)
> 
> "Latinized name of Gabriele Falloppio
> 
> "Italian anatomist who discovered the Fallopian tubes,
> which he described as 'trumpets of the uterus', and
> named the vagina ..."
> 
> http://ebooks.whsmithonline.co.uk/encyclopedia/29/M0001229.htm
> 
> From his Anatomical Observations (1561) ...
> 
> "That slender and narrow seminal passage arises from
> the horn of the uterus, very white and sinewy. But
> after it has passed outward a little way it becomes
> gradually broader and curls like the tendrils of a
> vine until it comes near the end, when the
> tendril-like curls spread out and it terminates in a
> very broad ending which appears membranous and fleshy
> on account of its reddish color. 
> 
> "This ending is much shredded and worn as if it were
> the fringe of a worn piece of cloth, and it has a
> broad opening which always lies closed by the coming
> together of those fringed ends.  However, if they are
> opened carefully and spread apart they form, as it
> were, the bell-like mouth of a bronze trumpet." 
> 
> http://www.medicalpost.com/mdlink/english/members/medpost/data/3423/31B.HTM
> 
> Texts downloadable at ...
> 
> http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/bibliography/f.html
> 
> And do of course cf. ...
> 
> http://www.muenster.de/stadt/kongress1648/img/4_35.jpg
> 
> But to continue ...
> 
> "Fallopius ... in his Anatomical Observations (1561)
> on the human female reproductive tract, chose the term
> tuba uterina because the Latin word tuba means
> trumpet,
> reflecting the similarity of the infundibulum to the
> flared bell of a trumpet. More than a century later,
> de Graaf, who discovered the function of the ovary and
> named the oviduct in his study of the hen, published
> his paper On the Human Reproductive Organs (1672). He
> used the terms tubae and tubae Fallopii because these
> were the established mammalian terms. Tuba uterina is
> the international term in the nomenclatures of gross
> anatomy since 1895, histology since 1965, and
> embryology since 1977. Eponyms like Fallopian were
> eliminated from the Nomina Anatomica in 1955. The
> English term uterine tube, while an inexact
> translation, is standard in medicine, approved by the
> Nomencl. Comm. of the Am. College of Theriogenologists
> in 1987." 
> 
> http://civic.bev.net/aava/abstr95.html#4
> 
> And see also ...
> 
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772a.htm
> 
> "She found Mike Fallopian, a couple weeks into raising
> a beard ..." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 166)
> 
> http://newscenter.cancer.gov/sciencebehind/cioc/renaissance/9.3.jpg
> 
> http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~atkins/newwebpages/Graphics/fallopius.jpg
> 
> And note as well ...
> 
> "Gabriele Fallopius, an Italian medical researcher, is
> credited as the creator of the concept of the
> condom.... Fallopius' original design called for a
> linen cloth to fit the shape of a man's penis and be
> fitted over him prior to engaging in intercourse. His
> design was introduced in the mid-fifteen hundreds but
> through time changed and improved."
> 
> http://www.depaul.edu/~rtheodos/papers/condom1.html
> 
> "In the mid-1500s, Fallopius, a professor of anatomy
> at the University of Padua, designed a medicated linen
> sheath that fit over the glans, or tip of the penis,
> and was secured by the foreskin. It represents the
> first clearly documented prophylactic for the male
> member. Soon sheaths appeared for circumcised men.
> They were a standard eight inches long and tied
> securely at the base with a pink ribbon, presumably to
> appeal to the female. Fallopius's invention was tested
> on over one thousand men, 'with complete success,' as
> the doctor himself reported. The euphemism of the day
> labeled them 'overcoats.'" 
> 
> http://www.englishcompany.net/condoms.html
> 
> http://www.kinglove.com/ae/ask009.asp
> 
> In the meantime, J. Kerry Grant (A Companion to The
> Crying of Lot 49) notes that ...
> 
> "Watson regards this name, along with that of Stanley
> Koteks, as contributing to the book's theme of
> transsexuality through their references to 'the
> anatomy and sanitation of strictly female processes'
> (60)." (p. 49)
> 
> Citing ...
> 
> Watson, Robert N.  "Who Bids for Trsitero?
>    The Conversion of Pynchon's Oedipa Maas."
>    Southern Humanities Review 17 (Winter 1983):
>    59-75.
> 
> I'm not so sure about any "theme of transsexuality"
> here, but I can't stop hearing the ol' "Has anybody
> seen Mike Hunt?" gag here ...
> 
> 
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