ectopia

Meaning

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

Synonyms

displacement

dystopia

jump

passage

segue

shift

subduction

transition

transposition

allotopia

ectopy

heterotaxy

heterotopia

malposition

dystopy

Translations

ectopie

εκτοπία

ectopia

ectopia

Etymology

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