ectopic

[ek-top-ik]

occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.

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First recorded in 1870–75; ectop(ia) + -ic

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Is laparotomy licit when performed for extrauterine pregnancy or ectopic gestation?
Essays In Pastoral Medicine
Austin Malley
Extra-uterine pregnancy is also called ectopic pregnancy, or ectopic gestation.
Woman
William J. Robinson
When the ectopic ovum begins to develop in the Fallopian tube the placental villi erode the tubal wall and the blood-vessels.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Austin O'Malley
In that spirit we may now consider the cases that occur in ectopic gestation.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine
Austin Malley
A case of ectopic gestation is diagnosed, the conditions are explained to the woman, and she refuses to be operated upon.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine
Austin Malley

Word Origin and History for ectopic

adj.

1873, from ectopia (1847), coined in Modern Latin from Greek ektopos "away from a place," from ek- "out" (see ex-) + topos "place" (see topos).

Medicine definitions for ectopic

[ĕk-tŏp′ĭk]

Out of place, as of an organ not in its proper position, or of a pregnancy occurring elsewhere than in the cavity of the uterus.

Of or relating to a heartbeat that has its origin elsewhere than in the sinoatrial node.

Science definitions for ectopic

[ĕk-tŏp′ĭk]

Out of place, as of an organ not in its proper position, or of a pregnancy occurring elsewhere than in the cavity of the uterus.

Of or relating to a heartbeat that has its origin elsewhere than in the sinoatrial node.