extrauterine gestation

Questions about extrauterine gestation

What does extrauterine gestation mean?

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

What is another word for extrauterine gestation?

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

extrauterine 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.