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'Ectopic Pregnancy' is the more general term for pregnancy outside the uterus. Found this, hope it helps. 'Typically an abdominal pregnancy is a secondary impl
by Ovah 8y ago
'Ectopic Pregnancy' is the more general term for pregnancy outside the uterus.
Found this, hope it helps.
'Typically an abdominal pregnancy is a secondary implantation which means that it originated from a tubal (less common an ovarian) pregnancy and re-implanted.'
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Insights_into_abdominal_pregnancy#Mechanism https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Insi...
"An ectopic pregnancy occasionally aborts backwards down a tube, or bursts out of it without killing the patient, and embeds itself elsewhere in her abdominal cavity. Sometimes, an ovum is fertilized outside a tube on the surface of an ovary, and then implants itself in the abdominal cavity. ... An abdominal pregnancy is thus a rare complication of an ordinary ectopic pregnancy"
https://web.archive.org/web/20170814131930/https://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/dtc/primsurg/docbook/html/x5173.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170814131930/https://www.meb.u...
- dpark 8y agoThanks. The missing piece for me was that the Fallopian tubes are not directly connected to the ovaries, which makes “an ovum is fertilized outside a tube” an understandable scenario.