How to Use tubal in a Sentence

tubal

adjective
  • The complaint said doctors found signs of a tubal ectopic pregnancy but discharged her and instructed her to return in two days.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But some tubal ligations are performed at Catholic hospitals if they’re prescribed for the long-term health of the patient.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • Vasectomies and tubal ligations can be reversed in some cases, although success rates vary widely.
    — Elizabeth Hintz, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • During that tubal pregnancy, Lila very nearly lost her own life in the process — her right fallopian tube ruptured and she was rushed to the hospital for an emergency ligation surgery.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Consider tubal ligations, a routine sterilization procedure barred by the directives.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • That means, for example, that the standard of care applicable to tubal ligations, which is that they should be performed as part of the same procedure as a Caesarian section, can’t be met at Catholic hospitals.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • Renal cancer, nephritis, and kidney tubal tissue injury are just some of the conditions that were initially excluded because of a lack of available scientific data connecting them to radiation exposure.
    — Time, 21 July 2023
  • This shifting gender pattern resulted from a rising concern about the fitness to parent, with a focus on mothering, as well as the development of a safer, standardized tubal-ligation procedure for sterilizing women.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • Liang and several colleagues analyzed electronic health records at one health care institution in Michigan and found that requests for tubal sterilizations surged in the months after the Dobbs decision and then returned to baseline.
    — Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Because tubal ligations are permanent, invasive procedures, researchers wanted to look at their safety and effectiveness as compared to longer-lasting devices like IUDs.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • One indication of the reluctance among men to take on primary responsibility for contraception is the unpopularity of vasectomies compared to tubal ligations.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Physicians and historians of medicine have long bickered over a differential diagnosis of Tiny Tim’s unspecified illness, with guesses ranging from cerebral palsy to rickets to renal tubal acidosis.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Rosenfeld eventually joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, becoming a specialist in tubal reversal, and, in the early eighties, taking charge of the clinic in the center of town.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022
  • Older clinical concerns suggested that appendicitis or appendectomy might impair fertility by causing inflammation and scarring – known as tubal adhesions – in the fallopian tubes.
    — Lilia Goncharova, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • According to her Uighur doctor, her fallopian tubes were cut in the resulting tubal-ligation procedure, making her sterilization irreversible — a common experience for Xinjiang’s minorities.
    — Olivia Enos, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020

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