Ectopia

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Overview

In medicine an ectopia is a displacement or malposition of an organ of the body. Most ectopias are congenital but some may happen later in life.

• Ectopia lentis is the displacement of the crystalline lens of the eye
• Ectopia cordis is the displacement of the heart outside the body during fetal development
• Renal ectopia occurs when both kidneys occur on the same side of the body
• Ectopic pregnancy occurs when the fertilized egg implants anywhere other than the uterine wall
• Cardiac ectopy occurs when electrical signals for a heartbeat originate in the wrong part of the heart muscle.

In molecular biology a gene is ectopically expressed when it is expressed in an abnormal place.