ectopic gestation

Questions about ectopic gestation

What does ectopic gestation mean?

ectopic gestation means "pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus".

What is another word for ectopic gestation?

Close synonyms include ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, eccyesis, metacyesis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ectopic gestation a common word?

ectopic gestation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.