extrauterine pregnancy

1. 1.

   pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

   Synonymsectopic pregnancyectopic gestationextrauterine gestationeccyesismetacyesis

   Broaderpregnancy

   Narrowerabdominal pregnancyovarian pregnancytubal pregnancy

Questions about extrauterine pregnancy

What does extrauterine pregnancy mean?

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

What is another word for extrauterine pregnancy?

Close synonyms include ectopic 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 extrauterine pregnancy a common word?

extrauterine 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.