Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal location or position of an organ or a body part, occurring congenitally or as the result of injury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, morbid displacement of parts, usually congenital: as, ectopia of the heart or of the bladder. Also
ectopy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology The condition such that an
organ or otherbody part has an abnormal position.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I learned from Doctor Anonymous this morning that there's a real medical condition, called ectopia cordis, in which babies are born with their hearts outside their bodies.
Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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Bisoi described the case -- called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in 1 million live births -- as a "lifetime opportunity" that might shed light on how to deal with similar conditions in the future.
AOL News 2009
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Dr. A reports on the progress of Naseem Hasni, born on Halloween, who's currently undergoing corrective surgery for this condition, and he includes a video clip about a young man named Christopher Wall, born in 1975, who when the clip was filmed held the record for being the longest-lived ectopia cordis patient.
Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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For this is a case of _ectopia cordis_, my boy, -- displacement of the heart; and it isn't every day you get a chance to overhaul such an interesting malformation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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There was ectopia vesicae and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus; the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened into the ureter.
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There was ectopia vesicæ and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus; the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened into the ureter.
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A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four is given by Popoff.
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A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four is given by Popoff.
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I found an article the other day which details a case-control study of cerebellar tonsillar ectopia (Chiari) and head/neck trauma (whiplash).
Brain Injury Lawyer 2010
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Although no many of secondary image was accustomed in norwegian trials, and no nonasthmatic deficiencies for comparable inpatient are offered, methods should manufacture developmental of the ectopia of long-term quick effects.
Wii-volution 2010
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