Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Urogenital Diseases > Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications > Pregnancy Complications > Pregnancy, Ectopic

Preferred term

Pregnancy, Ectopic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Ectopic Pregnancy
  • Extrauterine Pregnancies
  • Extrauterine Pregnancy
  • Pregnancies, Extrauterine
  • Pregnancy, Extrauterine

Note

  • check the tags FEMALE & PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HETEROTOPIC is also available

Scope note

  • A potentially life-threatening condition in which EMBRYO IMPLANTATION occurs outside the cavity of the UTERUS. Most ectopic pregnancies (>96%) occur in the FALLOPIAN TUBES, known as TUBAL PREGNANCY. They can be in other locations, such as UTERINE CERVIX; OVARY; and abdominal cavity (PREGNANCY, ABDOMINAL).

In other languages

  • kohdunulkoinen raskaus

    Finnish

  • ekstra
  • ekstrauteriina
  • ekstrauterina
  • ektooppinen raskaus
  • extra
  • graviditas extrauterina
  • graviditas extrauterina non specificata
  • kohdun ulkoinen raskaus
  • määrittämätön kohdunulkoinen raskaus
  • Utomkvedshavandeskap

    Swedish

  • Ektopisk graviditet
  • Extrauterin graviditet
  • Graviditet, ektopisk

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011271

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 6/30/21