TUBAL PREGNANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tubal pregnancy mean? 

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

1. ectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUBAL PREGNANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tubal pregnancy" is a kind of...):

eccyesis; ectopic gestation; ectopic pregnancy; extrauterine gestation; extrauterine pregnancy; metacyesis (pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus)

 Context examples 

Also called: Tubal Pregnancy, Abdominal Pregnancy, Abdominal pregnancy, tubal pregnancy

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

A rupture of the fallopian tube wall due to tubal pregnancy, or other traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Fallopian Tube Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

It may obstruct the lumen of the fallopian tube and result in infertility or tubal pregnancy.

(Fallopian Tube Endometrioid Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)