FALLOPIUS or FALLOPIO, GABRIELLO (15 1562), Italian anatomist, was born at Modena, where he became a canon of the cathedral. He studied medicine at Ferrara and be came teacher of anatomy in that city, and later at Pisa and Padua, where he worked with Vesalius. He died on Oct. 9, 1562. Fallopius discovered and described the chorda tympani, the sphenoid sinus, the opening of the ovarian tubes of the human female into the abdominal cavity, the trigeminal, auditory and glossopharyngeal nerves. He named the ovarian tubes, the vagina, the placenta, the muscles of the forehead, occiput and tongue. Only one treatise by Fallopius appeared during his lifetime, namely the Observationes anatomicae (Venice, i 561). His collected works, Opera genuina omnia, were published at Venice in 1584.