extrauterine
adjective
ex·tra·uter·ine
ˌek-strə-ˈyü-tə-rən 
-ˌrīn
-ˌrīn
: situated or occurring outside the uterus
extrauterine pregnancy
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Alabama Supreme Court ruled embryos are 'extrauterine children' The Southern Baptists resolution comes in the wake of a February decision from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos could be legally treated as children.
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Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
Daniels also introduced House Bill 240 on Tuesday, which would amend a part of the state constitution that supports that rights of unborn children to note that an extrauterine embryo is not an unborn child.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
An ectopic pregnancy, also called extrauterine pregnancy, is when a fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, usually in a fallopian tube.
—Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
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Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
Daniels also introduced House Bill 240 on Tuesday, which would amend a part of the state constitution that supports that rights of unborn children to note that an extrauterine embryo is not an unborn child.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
An ectopic pregnancy, also called extrauterine pregnancy, is when a fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, usually in a fallopian tube.
—Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
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extrauterine
adjective
ex·tra·uter·ine
ˌek-strə-ˈyüt-ə-rən
-ˌrīn
-ˌrīn
: situated or occurring outside the uterus
Endometriosis can be defined as the growth of endometrial tissue composed of both glandular and stromal elements at an extrauterine site.—G. David Adamson, The Journal of the American Medical Association
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