The fallopian tubes play an important part in conception, transporting the fertilized egg from the ovary to the uterus.
These slender tubes start at the top of the uterus, one at each side, and extend about 10 cm (4 inches) to the right and left.
The far ends terminate in long finger like structures which hover near the ovaries, called fimbria. These catch the mature egg as soon as it is released and channel it down in the fallopian tube.
Here egg cell and sperm cell can meet. If it leads to fertilization the hair like projections in the tube push the embryo down the tube into the womb. This journey takes about 5 or 6 days. When the embryo arrives in the womb and attaches to the spongy lining of the uterus the girl is pregnant.
A girl can be infertile when the fallopian tubes don’t function well.