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ectopic

In medicine, term applied to an anatomical feature that is displaced or found in an abnormal position. An ectopic pregnancy is one occurring outside the womb, usually in a Fallopian tube.



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From similar perches on the seacoast of Ectopia (respectively the Redwoods and British Columbia), Pynchon and Gibson have written comic utopian novels that unabashedly defend the dream of the Commune.
Only a few cases of cervical thymic ectopia associated with ectopic parathyroid have been reported in the literature, and in most of these cases, patients were asymptomatic and presented with a cervical mass.
1,6,10-12) Less frequently associated anomalies include ectopia cordis and midline hemangiomata.
 
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