heterotopic

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1. Medicine.
   1. Occurring in an abnormal anatomic location: heterotopic bone formation.
   2. Grafted or transplanted into an abnormal location: heterotopic liver transplantation.
2. Ecology. Occurring in a number of different habitats.

Displacement of an organ or part of the body, such as a bone, from its normal position.

1. Displacement of an organ or other body part to an abnormal location.
2. Displacement of gray matter, usually into the deep cerebral white matter.

Pertaining to heterotopia.

Heterotopia may refer to:

• Heterotopia (medicine), the displacement of an organ from its normal position
• Heterotopia (space), a concept of "other spaces" by the philosopher Michel Foucault

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