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What does ectopia mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) The condition where an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
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Trisomy 18 associated with ectopia cordis and occipital meningocele.
Clinical signs of WMS include glaucoma, ectopia lentis, lenticular myopia, spherophakia, and short stature.
The possibility that aberrant prostatic glands represent a teratomatous component, rather than true ectopia, has also been proposed.
A chest and abdominal film from the first day of life demonstrated the ectopia cordis and a paucity of bowel gas in the abdomen.
An ectopia is a collection of several hundred nerve cells that have pushed their way up from the lower cortical layers into the outermost one, where they are not found in normal circumstances.
In children, ultrasound is useful as a screening examination to evaluate for hydro nephrosis, megaureter, and renal ectopia.

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