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ECCYESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does eccyesis mean?

• ECCYESIS (noun)
The noun ECCYESIS has 1 sense:

1. pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

Familiarity information: ECCYESIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ECCYESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eccyesis; ectopic gestation; ectopic pregnancy; extrauterine gestation; extrauterine pregnancy; metacyesis

Hypernyms ("eccyesis" is a kind of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eccyesis"):

abdominal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity)

ovarian pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the ovary)

tubal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube)

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