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Ectop, from Greek: ektos - outside; topos - place, means: located at outwardly displaced, non-phytological site (of organs).
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The term usually describes the occurrence of a tissue in a location of the organism that is atypical for that tissue (ectopy). The term "ectop" or ectopic, is often used to refer to hormone production that does not occur through physiologically placed glandular cells, but (paraneoplastic) in a different location (e.g., in a tumor, e.g., small cell lung carcinoma).
The opposite of ectopic is normotopic or normotopic.
