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"These include the high-altitude environments in which many Kenyans are born and raised, widespread early exposure to running as a means of transportation, and the long-legged, ectomorphic body type that is common among Kenyans. \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 27 July 2015"
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"Aborting the embryo is often the best treatment for an ectopic pregnancy , Zhang said. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 3 July 2022",
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"Harris said one condition likely to qualify as a threat to a pregnant person\u2019s life is an ectopic pregnancy that ruptures the fallopian tube. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
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"But doctors also worry other forms of reproductive care, like treating ectopic pregnancies, could be targeted. \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst And Lindsey Tanner, Anchorage Daily News , 24 May 2022",
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"House Democrats fought the proposal in a series of amendments, attempting to add exceptions for severe fetal abnormalities, ectopic pregnancies, rape, incest and the mental health of the mother. \u2014 Morgan Smith, star-telegram , 8 Aug. 2017",
"If left untreated, gonorrhea can increase a woman\u2019s risk of developing HIV infection, infertility or ectopic pregnancy\u2014among other effects. \u2014 Amy Maxmen, Scientific American , 7 July 2017",
"Gonorrhoea is often asymptomatic and if left untreated could cause pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility, as well as increased risk of HIV. \u2014 Fox News , 7 July 2017",
"Remy opened up about her own personal struggle with an ectopic pregnancy. \u2014 Sabrina Finkelstein, Billboard , 21 June 2017"
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": a cosmopolitan family of chiefly epiphytic marine brown algae (order Ectocarpales ) that includes algae with a thallus of erect branching filaments arising from a creeping filament or layer or sometimes being compacted into a pseudoparenchymatous thallus \u2014 see ectocarpus":[]
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"-\u02cck\u00e4r\u02c8p\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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"New Latin, from Ectocarpus , type genus + -aceae":""
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": a large order of rather simple heterotrichous brown algae that lack true oogamy \u2014 see ectocarpaceae":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Ectocarpus + -ales":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-090545"
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"plural noun"
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": a cosmopolitan family of chiefly epiphytic marine brown algae (order Ectocarpales ) that includes algae with a thallus of erect branching filaments arising from a creeping filament or layer or sometimes being compacted into a pseudoparenchymatous thallus \u2014 see ectocarpus":[]
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"-\u02cck\u00e4r\u02c8p\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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"New Latin, from Ectocarpus , type genus + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-091104"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": of or relating to algae of the genus Ectocarpus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ekt\u014d\u00a6k\u00e4rpik"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Ectocarpus + English -ic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-093357"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": living on the surface of an animal : ectozoan":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin ectozoa + English -ic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100523"
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"adjective"
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": having reproductive organs developed from the ectoderm":[
"\u2014 used of hydromedusae"
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},
"pronounciation":[
"-p\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + -carpous having such fruit":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-122444"
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"electroconvulsive therapy":[],
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"ecto derm"
],
"\u2014 compare end- , exo-":[
"ecto derm"
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},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek ekto- , from ektos , from ex out \u2014 more at ex-":"Combining form"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-134210"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the cortical zone of the attraction sphere":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ekt\u0259\u02ccsfi(\u0259)r"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + sphere":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-150448"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the layer of mesoderm from which the dura mater and much of the membrane bone of the skull develop in the higher vertebrate embryo":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ekt\u014d+"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from ect- + Greek m\u0113ninx membrane":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152704"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": mesenchyme derived from ectoderm":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ekt\u014d+"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + mesenchyme":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-163444"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the point at which the outer ends of the upper and lower eyelids meet \u2014 compare endocanthion":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccekt\u014d\u02c8kan(t)th\u0113\u0259n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + -canthion (irregular from Late Latin canthus corner of the eye)":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-174424"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the elision of a final m with a preceding short vowel before a word beginning with h or a vowel":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"ek\u02c8thlips\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from Greek ekthlipsis loss of a sound or letter in a word, squeezing out, from ekthlibein to squeeze out (from ek out of, out\u2014from ex\u2014 + thlibein to squeeze, alteration\u2014influenced by Greek thlan to crush, bruise\u2014of Greek\u2014Aeolic & Ionic\u2014 phlibein to squeeze) + -sis ; Greek thlan akin to Czech dlasmati to press and perhaps to Sanskrit d\u1e5b\u1e63ad, dh\u1e5b\u1e63ad millstone":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-175522"
},
"ectepicondylar":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": relating to the external condyle of the distal end of the humerus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u00a6)ek\u00a6t+-"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + epicondyle + -ar":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194436"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the external part of the sphenotic bone":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ek(\u02cc)t\u014d+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + sphenotic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200216"
},
"ectosome":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the cortical part of a sponge":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ect- + -some":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-235707"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the ectosome":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-010629"
},
"ectorhinal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, related to, or located on the outside of the nose":[
