Stephanie Purmort

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There is an even rarer, stranger, and more dangerous form of ectopic pregnancy. Very seldom, when an egg is ejected from the ovary, it does not make it into the fallopian tube at all. This is because, quite oddly, the fallopian tube is not actually connected to the ovary. Rather, the opening of the fallopian tube envelops the ovary, sort of like a too-large garden hose resting on a too-small spigot. The two are not actually attached, and sometimes an egg gets squirted out of the ovary and into the void of the abdominal cavity instead of into the fallopian tube.
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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