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Out of place, in obstetric parlance
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ectopic
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Word definitions for ectopic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864 in reference to pregnancy, from ectopia "morbid displacement of parts" (1847), coined in Modern Latin from Greek ektopos "away from a place, distant; foreign, strange," from ek- "out" (see ex- ) + topos "place" (see topos ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. exhibiting ectopia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ectopic \Ec*top"ic\, a. (Med.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to ectopia. 2 (context comparable medicine English) Being out of place, having an abnormal position.
Usage examples of ectopic.
Bouzal cites an extraordinary case of ectopic gestation in which there was natural expulsion of the fetus through abdominal walls, with subsequent intestinal strangulation.
Brodie, Dunglison, Erich, Rodbard, Fox, and Wilson are among others reporting the expulsion of remnants of ectopic pregnancies through the abdominal parietes.
Mathieson relates the history of the delivery of a living ectopic child by the vagina, with recovery of the mother.
Careful examination showed this to be a case of intramural twin pregnancy at the point of entrance of the tube and the uterus, while at the abdominal end of the same tube there was another ovum,--the whole being an example of triple unilateral ectopic gestation.
Werder has investigated the question of the ultimate fate of ectopic children delivered alive.
It contains data relative to 17 cases in which abdominal section has been successfully performed for advanced ectopic gestation with living children.
Cordier gives an instance in which he successfully removed a full-grown child, the result of an ectopic gestation which had ruptured intraligamentally and had been retained nearly two years.
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He was sort of a career ectopic pregnancy--he was never going to produce anything, but he was determined to stay in the general area of the academic womb.
The pulse was still quickening, and even more disturbHARMFUL INTENT t5 ing, there was an ectopic, irregular heartbeat.
Callahan once saw a patient in the emergency room who had an ectopic pregnancy that required the immediate removal of a Fallopian tube.
Juanita Mott had left school at fifteen, but in May 1973, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, an experience that probably unsettled her still more.
The pregnancy was diagnosed as ectopic, and she was again admitted to the Gloucester Royal Hospital, although no one explained what was wrong with her.
But about six months after his breakthrough, she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy.
He told Levine the entire ectopic pregnancy story, adding that he was indebted to James for his clearheadedness during the incident.