ectopic pregnancy

Questions about ectopic pregnancy

What does ectopic pregnancy mean?

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

What is another word for ectopic pregnancy?

Close synonyms include extrauterine pregnancy, ectopic gestation, 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 pregnancy a common word?

ectopic pregnancy 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.