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Hopefully the activity around this heterotopic ossification settles down.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

Alex: "I'm going to do a heterotopic transplant."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2016

Sixty to seventy per cent of those injuries exhibited heterotopic ossification: the wounds had bone growing in the soft tissue, where it didn’t belong.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

According to Haeckel, the origin of the generative products in the mesoderm is a heterotopic phenomenon, for he considers that they must have originated phylogenetically in one of the two primary layers, ectoderm or endoderm.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Heterochronic processes are such as arise through the dislocation of the proper phylogenetic order of succession: heterotopic processes in the same way are caused by a wandering of cells from one germ-layer to another.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell