FALLOPIUS (or FALLOPIO), GABRIELLO (1523-1562)  , Italian anatomist, was born about 1523 at Modena, where he became a canon of the cathedral . He studied medicine at Ferrara, and, after a European tour, became teacher of anatomy in that city . He thence removed to Pisa, and from Pisa, at the instance of Cosmo I., grand-duke of Tuscany, to Padua, where, besides the chairs of anatomy and surgery and of botany, he held the office of superintendent of the new botanical garden . He died at Padua on the 5th of October 1562 . Only one treatise by Fallopius appeared during his lifetime, namely the Observationes anatomicae (Venice, 1561) . His collected works, Opera genuina omnia, were published at Venice in 1584 .