salpingectomy

Removal of the tube would be called salpingectomy, and the excision of the ovary, ophorectomy.

Salpingectomy is more serious, because the operation can not be performed so near the surface of the body.

Vasectomy, ovariotomy and salpingectomy (with and without complete excision), castration.

Salpingectomy is the cutting away of the whole or of a piece of the Fallopian tube (corresponds to vasectomy in the male).

To consider in the first place the operation of simple sterilization (vasectomy or salpingectomy).