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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An ectopic pregnancy, also called extrauterine pregnancy, is when a fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, usually in a fallopian tube.
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Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
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1709, in the meaning defined above
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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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