It is the surgical removal of a fallopian tube, or both. It has an etymology with some license, since in Greek 963; 945; 955; 960; 953; 947; 958; (sálpinx) is "trumpet" as a reference to the fallopian horn, along with 949; 954; 964; 959; 956; 951; ( ectomé "cut, removal") .