GC: n
S: NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ectopic-pregnancy/ (last access:15 December 2023); NIH – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329644/ (last access:15 December 2023)
N: 1. – ectopic (adj): 1864 in reference to pregnancy, from ectopia “morbid displacement of parts” (1847), coined in Modern Latin from Greek ektopos“away from a place, distant; foreign, strange,” fromek- “out” (see ex-) + topos “place”
– pregnancy (n): “state of a female who has conceived or is with child,” 1520s (originally figurative), from pregnant (adj.1) + abstract noun suffix -cy. Literal use attested from 1590s. An earlier word in this sense was pregnacioun (early 15c.), from Old French pregnacion and Latin praegnationem.
2. Condition in which the fertilized ovum (egg) has become imbedded outside the uterine cavity. The site of implantation most commonly is a fallopian tube; however, implantation can occur in the abdomen, the ovary, or the uterine cervix.
3. Ovarian ectopic pregnancy and cervical ectopic pregnancy are relatively rare conditions. In ovarian pregnancy, the ovum is fertilized before its discharge from the follicle, resulting in the ovum’s implantation in or on the ovary.
4. Abdominal ectopic pregnancy occurs when the placenta is attached to some part of the peritoneal cavity other than the uterus, ovary, or fallopian tube.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ectopic, https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pregnancy (last access:15 December 2023); 2 to 4. EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/science/ectopic-pregnancy (last access:15 December 2023).
SYN: 1. extrauterine pregnancy. 2. exfetation (rare), eccyesis.(depending on context)
S: 1. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=extrauterine+pregnancy&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access:15 December 2023); GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26508658/grossesse-extra-uterine (last access:15 December 2023); EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/science/ectopic-pregnancy (last access:15 December 2023). 2. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=extrauterine+pregnancy&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access:15 December 2023).
