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EXTRAUTERINE GESTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extrauterine gestation mean? 

EXTRAUTERINE GESTATION (noun)
  The noun EXTRAUTERINE GESTATION has 1 sense:

1. pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterusplay

  Familiarity information: EXTRAUTERINE GESTATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXTRAUTERINE GESTATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eccyesis; ectopic gestation; ectopic pregnancy; extrauterine gestation; extrauterine pregnancy; metacyesis

Hypernyms ("extrauterine gestation" is a kind of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extrauterine gestation"):

abdominal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity)

ovarian pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in the ovary)

tubal pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy in a Fallopian tube)


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