ectopic
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Singer Florence Welch has revealed she underwent life-saving emergency surgery after experiencing an ectopic pregnancy in August 2023.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
The swelling that occurred in her lower abdomen, she says, was likely an ectopic pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg implants and grows outside of the uterus.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2025
The preview text of those emails carried a harsh and consistent reminder: “Pregnancy: ectopic, UNVIABLE.”
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2025
Around 11,000 pregnancies a year in the UK are ectopic.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024
Mutations in the genes thus result in malformed, ectopic segments and organs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
