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What does heterotopic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Occurring in an abnormal anatomical location.
  2. (ecology) Occurring in different habitats.
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It's called heterotopic ossification, when a bone grows outside the skeleton.
Sixty to seventy per cent of those injuries exhibited heterotopic ossification: the wounds had bone growing in the soft tissue, where it didn't belong.
This is especially relevant in pregnancy following assisted reproductive technology, which is associated with a considerable risk of heterotopic pregnancy.
He performed many of the earliest liver transplants, including the first heterotopic liver transplant, and used this experience to conduct other pioneering work in liver surgery.
This lesion has been given several names, including cystic choristoma, heterotopic gastrointestinal cyst, enterocystoma, and duplication cyst.
In the interest of rapid recovery and the prevention of postoperative heterotopic bone formation, the blood supply to the tissues must be preserved.

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