Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metacyesis

1 sense of metacyesis

Sense 1
ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine pregnancy, ectopic gestation, extrauterine gestation, eccyesis, metacyesis -- (pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus)
       => pregnancy, gestation, maternity -- (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)