falling sickness (falingsik nes)

[Simila larly named named in D. vallende ziekte, OHG. fal landiu suht, G. fallende sucht, Sw. fallande sot, Dan. faldsot, faldende syge.] A fit in which one suddenly falls to the ground: a popular name for epilepsy. Cas . What? Did Cæsar swoon? Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechle . Bru . 'Tis very like: he hath the falling sickne . Shak ., J. C., i. 2. falling-star (fa'ling-stär'), n. One of a cla of meteors which appear as luminous points shooting or darting through larger or smaller arcs of the sky, and followed by long trains of light. They are observable in the night sky throughout the year. Also called shooting - star. Fallopian (fa-lo'pi-an), a. Of, pertaining to, or discovered by Gabriel Fallopius, or Fallopio, a famous Italian anatomist (1523-62). He published his discovery of the Fallopian tubes in 1561.- Fallopian aqueduct. See aquæduct us Fallopii, under aquæduct us, and nerviduct. Fallopian canal. (a) A Fallopian tube. (b) The Fallopian aqueduct. Fallopian pregnancy, the development of the embryo to some extent in a Fallopian tube; a form of extra-uterine pregnancy. Fallopian tubes, in an at., a pair of ducts extending from the ovary to the uterus, conveying ova. In the human female they are three or four inches long, and lie between the folds of peritoneum which constitute the broad ligament of the uterus on each side, near the upper border of these folds, and consist of a serous, a muscular, and a mucous coat. The outer or ovarian end is fringed with proce es, and called the fimbriated extremity, or mors us diaboli, which is more or le closely applied to the ovary. One of these oviducts, right or left, receives the ripened ovum on its escape from the ovary, and conducts it into the womb.