ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ectopic pregnancy mean? 

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

1. pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECTOPIC PREGNANCY (noun)

Sense 1

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 pregnancy" 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 pregnancy"):

abdominal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity)

ovarian pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the ovary)

tubal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube)

 Context examples 

If you have an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg grows in an abnormal place, outside the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes.

(Ectopic Pregnancy, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

Complications include infertility and ectopic pregnancy.

(Acute Salpingitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of ectopic pregnancy in which the embryo implants in the abdominal cavity instead of the uterine endometrium.

(Abdominal Pregnancy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It may cause infertility and it may raise the risk of ectopic pregnancy.

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It may cause infertility and an increased risk of an ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy in the fallopian tubes).

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NCI Dictionary)

Ectopic pregnancy characterized by the implantation of the embryo in the peritoneal cavity or abdominal organs.

(Abdominal Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

This can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic pain, abscesses, and other serious problems.

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It can cause life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, and pregnant women can pass the disease to their babies.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

Also called ectopic pregnancy.

(Extrauterine pregnancy, NCI Dictionary)

Many women who have had ectopic pregnancies go on to have healthy pregnancies later.

(Ectopic Pregnancy, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)