ectopia

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"The Masque" is a work for the English Theater and often came out as such, incorporating baudy humor, (funny only because it was taking place in the ectopia of Jordan Hall) juvenile antics and hackneyed drama which seemed more the subsistence of the work than the music itself.

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  1. noun An abnormal location or position of an organ or a body part, occurring congenitally or as the result of injury.

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  • "The Masque" is a work for the English Theater and often came out as such, incorporating baudy humor, (funny only because it was taking place in the ectopia of Jordan Hall) juvenile antics and hackneyed drama which seemed more the subsistence of the work than the music itself. —  The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper
  • La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia. —  Teach Me Tonight
  • No. 31 was probably a case of ectopia cordis. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four is given by Popoff. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The unnamed boy from the eastern Indian state of Bihar had a complete thoracic ectopia cordis, —  IOL: News
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  1. New Latin, from Greek ektopos, away from a place : ek-, away from, out of; see ecto- + topos, place.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἐκτόπιος, ἒκτοπος, away from a place, out of place, out of the way, from ἐκ, out, + τόπος, place: see topic.
 

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