a. [f. L. tub-us TUBE + -AL.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tube; consisting of tubes; tubular. rare.
1735–6. H. Brooke, Univ. Beauty, IV. 126. Its wanton floods the tubal system lave.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 46. In the early tubal form of the heart, the auricles are placed below … the ventricles.
2. Anat. and Path. Pertaining to, occurring in, or affecting the Fallopian tube, as tubal dropsy, pregnancy, the bronchial tubes, as tubal cough, respiration, or the renal tubules, as tubal nephritis.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 181. Eccyesis Tubalis, Tubal Exfetation.
1857. Bullock, Cazeaux’ Midwif., 244. Having been once deposited in the tubal canal, the ovule traverses its whole length, and falls into the uterine cavity. Ibid., 246. Tubal Pregnancy … is the most frequent of all the varieties of extra-uterine pregnancy.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., s.v. Murmur, Respiratory, The respiration, perceived over the trachea and bronchia in health, is called tracheal or bronchial or tubal,… according to the situation in which it is heard.
1860. Mayne, Expos Lex., Tubal Cough, see Bronchial Cough.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 276. Tubal nephritis … is one of those morbid processes which constitute Bright’s disease.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., s.v., T[ubal] dropsy, hydrosalpinx.
