• Question: how wide is the egg tube on the vagina

    Asked by elfiehawk to Vicky, Tom, Simon on 22 Jan 2014.
    • Photo: Simon Butt

      Simon Butt answered on 22 Jan 2014:

      So the egg (to be all technical – fallopian) tubes feeds into the uterus, beyond the vaginal opening. The egg tubes vary in width along their length from about half a centimeter (0.5 cm) at the narrowest point (opening up into the uterus) to a huge 1-2cm at the widest point near the ovaries. Why is that huge? Well a human egg is a mere 0.1-0.12 cm wide so if needed you could probably fit up to ten eggs down it at one time. Plenty of room for a single egg to pass!

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