Definitions for ectopic

ectopic ec·top·ic

Spelling: [ek-top-ik]
IPA: /ɛkˈtɒp ɪk/

Ectopic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in ectopic (cceiopt).

Definitions for ectopic

adjective

  1. occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.

Origin of ectopic

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

Examples for ectopic

A case of ectopic gestation is diagnosed, the conditions are explained to the woman, and she refuses to be operated upon.

Extra-uterine pregnancy is also called ectopic pregnancy, or ectopic gestation.

ectopic gestation is a disease, not a physiological condition.

In ectopic gestation with fatal rupture the foetus is, first, an active aggressor; secondly, it has no right to be where it is.

In that spirit we may now consider the cases that occur in ectopic gestation.

Hence common skill in the difficult diagnosis of ectopic gestation can not be looked for.

Is laparotomy licit when performed for extrauterine pregnancy or ectopic gestation?

The discussion of the moral questions that arise in cases of ectopic gestation which began in volume ix.

In ectopic gestation the foetus is active, the mother is passive, and there is no attempt at expulsion from either side.

By far the most important of the conditions of the Fallopian tubes is tubal pregnancy (or ectopic gestation).

Word Value for ectopic
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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