Hétérotopie (medicine)

The hétérotopie is a medical term indicating a congenital anomaly of the situation of a body or a fabric which is found at a place of the body where it should not be normally.

Some examples

  • the neuronal hétérotopie is a rare disease characterized by the presence of Neuron S apart from the Cortex and dispersed in the white Substance.
  • the hétérotopie of the gastric mucous membrane corresponds to the presence of small islands of gastric mucous membrane within the mucous membrane œsophagienne.

The Ectopie is one of its alternatives, it is an anomaly of situation of a body in the body.

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