ectopia

Signification (Anglais)

The condition where an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.

Concepts

ectopie

Synonymes

displacement

dystopia

jump

passage

segue

shift

subduction

transition

transposition

allotopia

ectopy

heterotaxy

heterotopia

malposition

dystopy

Étymologie (Anglais)

Learned borrowing from New Latin ectopia, derived from Ancient Greek ἔκτοπος (éktopos, “away from a place”), from ἐκ- (ek-) + τόπος (tópos).