Fallopian

[Paul Mackin]

Don't know if the suffixes -ian, -ean, -an, meaing pertaining to have any
bearing  on Dave's point but possibly they were at least a part of his
point. More importantly however wasn't it that at a certain point in time an
Armenian persona or  Armenian-like persona became emblematic of endurance
under some force or circumstance in modern life--something to do with
Armenians as an oppressed race, at the hands of the Turks.

Then there was the popular composer Khachaturian who I believe was in fact a
Georgian not Armenian. Do Georgian names also tend to end in -ian?

Just speculating.        P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lundy" <jlundy at gyk.com.au>
To: "'Dave Monroe'" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>; "Samuel Moyer"
<smoyer at satx.rr.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: RE: Fallopian


>
>
> 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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