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ECTOPIC GESTATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does ectopic gestation mean?

• ECTOPIC GESTATION (noun)
The noun ECTOPIC GESTATION has 1 sense:

1. pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

Familiarity information: ECTOPIC GESTATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ECTOPIC GESTATION (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 ("ectopic gestation" 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 "ectopic gestation"):

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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