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extrauterine pregnancy

noun

pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

• Syn: ↑ectopic pregnancy, ↑ectopic gestation, ↑extrauterine gestation, ↑eccyesis, ↑metacyesis

• Hypernyms: ↑pregnancy, ↑gestation, ↑maternity

• Hyponyms: ↑abdominal pregnancy, ↑ovarian pregnancy, ↑tubal pregnancy

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Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary extra- + uterine

: pregnancy in which the fetus develops outside the uterus (as in a fallopian tube)

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Med.

See ectopic pregnancy.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.