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entopic

 [en-top´ik]
occurring in the proper place.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

en·top·ic

(en-top'ik),
Placed within; occurring or situated in the normal place; opposed to ectopic.
[G. en, within, + topos, place]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

en·top·ic

(en-top'ik)
Placed within; occurring or situated in the normal place; opposed to ectopic.
[G. en, within, + topos, place]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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When studying visual hallucinations, some researchers (Abbot et al., 2007) distinguish between true hallucinations and those that are caused by entopic phenomena and visual inference.
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