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Fallopian tube obstruction
Fallopian tube obstruction: blockage of one or both fallopian tubes causing tubal factor infertility (30–40% of female infertility). Diagnosed by HSG, HyCoSy/HyFoSy, laparoscopy; treated with tubal surgery, catheterization, or IVF.
Fallopian Tube Patency Tests
Fallopian tube patency tests, chiefly HSG, HyCoSy, HyFoSy, and laparoscopy with chromopertubation, determine whether the fallopian tubes are open; tubal factor causes up to 35% of infertility, driving test choice and accuracy trade-offs.
Fallou Dieng
Fallou Dieng is a Senegalese mbalax singer from the Médina district of Dakar, born in 1960, who founded and leads the band DLC (Dakar Loisir Club).
Fallou Ndiaye
Fallou Ndiaye (born 2001) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Kerala Blasters FC of the Indian Super League, after a career in Finland.
Fallout (2024 TV series)
Fallout (2024 TV series), Prime Video post-apocalyptic drama from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Kilter Films with Todd Howard; original story in the Fallout games' continuity starring Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Aaron Moten; Season 2 set in New Vegas (December 2025), Season 3 filming from June 2026.
Fallout (Heroes)
Fallout (Heroes) is the eleventh episode of Heroes season 1, Volume One chapter 111, the December 4, 2006 NBC mid-season finale written by Joe Pokaski and directed by John Badham.
Fallout (series)
Fallout: post-apocalyptic RPG franchise begun by Interplay in 1997, owned by Bethesda since 2007; six mainline games, SPECIAL system, 1950s retro-futurist setting, Prime Video TV series.
Fallout (video game)
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (Interplay, 1997) is a turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG by Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Brian Fargo, using the SPECIAL system after GURPS was declined; it founded the Fallout series.
Fallout 2
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1998 isometric turn-based RPG by Black Isle Studios and Interplay, sequel to Fallout, following the Chosen One of Arroyo seeking the GECK; made in about 8 months, scored 86 on Metacritic.
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 (2008), Bethesda's action RPG in post-apocalyptic Washington D.C., introduced V.A.T.S. pause-targeting, sold about 12.4 million copies, and spawned five DLC packs and a GOTY edition.
Fallout 4
Fallout 4 is Bethesda Game Studios' 2015 open-world action RPG set in post-nuclear Boston (the Commonwealth), released November 10, 2015, known for settlement building, crafting, a voiced protagonist, and the Far Harbor add-on.
Fallout 76
Fallout 76 (2018) is Bethesda Game Studios' online open-world multiplayer RPG set in post-nuclear Appalachia, West Virginia. Launched without human NPCs to poor reviews, it was rebuilt through free updates such as Wastelanders (2020).
Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test
Radioactive debris from the July 16, 1945 Trinity test, the first atomic bomb, in New Mexico: NCI dose reconstruction, projected excess cancers (mainly thyroid), unfissioned plutonium, no proven transgenerational effects, and RECA compensation exclusion.
Fallout season 1
Fallout season 1 is the 2024 Prime Video adaptation of the Bethesda video game series, created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. Eight episodes set in 2296, scored 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and 73 on Metacritic.
Fallout season 2
Fallout season 2, the Prime Video adaptation's second season, premiered December 17, 2025 with eight weekly episodes set in New Vegas and the Mojave, about 15 years after Fallout: New Vegas, starring Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and new cast Justin Theroux, Macaulay Culkin, and Kumail Nanjiani.
Fallout season 3
Fallout season 3, the upcoming third season of Prime Video's Fallout TV series, renewed May 2025, filming in Los Angeles from June 2026, with Aaron Paul, Emily Mortimer, Manny Jacinto, and Thomasin McKenzie joining the cast; no release date announced.
Fallout shelter
A fallout shelter, also known as a nuclear fallout shelter, is an enclosed space protecting occupants from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion, often a basement.
Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play construction and management simulation by Bethesda Game Studios set in the Fallout universe, released on iOS in June 2015 and later on many platforms.
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, also called Fallout Tactics, is a 2001 Micro Forté and 14° East squad-based tactical combat game for PC, the third Fallout-universe game, first with multiplayer, non-canon except pivotal events.
Fallout: Bakersfield
Fallout: Bakersfield (Saur X / Red888guns, Alexander and Denis Berezin) is an unreleased GZDoom total conversion mod reimagining 1997's Fallout as a retro FPS, retelling the Necropolis sequence in Bakersfield, California; no release date.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is a 2004 Interplay action RPG for PS2 and Xbox, the first console Fallout game and second spin-off; non-canon, linear hack-and-slash, Metacritic 64/66, distinct from Fallout Tactics (2001).
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas is a 2010 action role-playing game by Obsidian Entertainment, set in the Mojave Wasteland around a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, where a courier pursues the stolen Platinum Chip.
Fallout: Nuka Break
Fallout: Nuka Break is a non-profit fan film and web series (2011–2013) set in the Fallout universe, made by Wayside Creations, following Twig, Scarlett, and Ben in search of Nuka Cola.
Fallow (restaurant)
Fallow is a modern British restaurant at 52 Haymarket, St James's, London, founded by chefs Jack Croft and Will Murray (ex Dinner by Heston Blumenthal). Known for sustainable, waste-conscious cooking, signature cod's head with sriracha butter, sister restaurants Roe and FOWL, and the 2022 Cateys Newcomer Award.
Fallow Deer
Fallow deer (Dama dama), a Mediterranean-native deer with palmate antlers and variable coats, now lives in 49 countries after Phoenician, Roman, and Norman introductions; Least Concern globally but invasive in places, with the endangered Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) as its close relative.
Fallow land
Fallow land: arable land left unsown and unharvested for one or more growing seasons to recover fertility, store moisture, or control weeds; also called summerfallow in dryland farming.
Fallow systems
Fallow systems: agricultural land-use systems alternating multi-year cropping with fallow periods, cultivated 33–66% of years (Ruthenberg). Include tropical shifting cultivation's 10–20 year rests and Mediterranean semiarid cereal–fallow rotations that restore soil fertility.
Falls Church, Virginia
Falls Church, Virginia, "The Little City," is a 2.2-square-mile independent city near Washington, D.C., incorporated 1875 as a town and 1948 as a city, named for the 1769 Episcopal church, with a council-manager government and ranked schools.
Fallschirmjäger
Fallschirmjäger: German airborne infantry, founded in the 1930s under the Luftwaffe, crushed at Crete in 1941, famed at Monte Cassino, and continued today in the Bundeswehr's Division Schnelle Kräfte.
Fallstreak hole
A fallstreak hole, also called a hole punch cloud or skypunch, is a large circular gap in a thin cloud layer of supercooled droplets, usually triggered by aircraft.