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View definitions for ectopic

ectopic

adjective as in displaced

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If a pharmacy refuses to fill a prescription for methotrexate because it will end an ectopic pregnancy, it may be discriminating on the basis of sex, according to the HHS.

We need to be here for the patient with the ectopic pregnancy who went to the local hospital only to find out they didn’t have methotrexate in stock to terminate that unviable pregnancy.

From Time

It’s one thing to take personal risks to save a patient in a clear life-or-death situation—like with his ectopic pregnancy patient who was bleeding out, Nichols says.

From Time

Doctors also use it to end ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus, resulting in an unviable pregnancy that carries the risk of life-threatening complications for the pregnant person.

From Time

It is also a drug that is used to treat ectopic pregnancies, or pregnancies that happen outside the uterus, typically in a fallopian tube.

From Quartz

When the ectopic ovum begins to develop in the Fallopian tube the placental villi erode the tubal wall and the blood-vessels.

Hirst says an experienced obstetrical specialist sees from 12 to 24 cases of ectopic pregnancy annually.

May an ectopic fetus be killed by operation, electricity, or poison, to avert possible danger of death from the mother?

With conditions like those in question 11, except that the fetus is not viable, may the surgeon remove the inviable ectopic fetus?

In many of these conditions the ovum becomes blocked and rupture follows as in ectopic gestation.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ectopic, such as: deranged, luxated, removed, and uprooted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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