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heterotopia

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heterotopia /het·ero·to·pia/ (-to´pe-ah) displacement or misplacement of parts; the presence of a tissue in an abnormal location.heterotop´ic
het·er·o·to·pi·a (htr--tp-) or het·er·ot·o·py (ht-rt-p)
n.
1. Displacement of an organ or other body part to an abnormal location.
2. Displacement of gray matter, usually into the deep cerebral white matter.

heter·o·topic (-tpk) adj.

heterotopia [het″er-o-to´pe-ah]
displacement or misplacement of parts. adj., adj heterotop´ic.

heterotopia
displacement or misplacement of parts.


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As the latter explains, heterotopias are "places where it is possible to think or to enact all the contradictory categories of a society simultaneously, spaces in which it is possible to live heterogeneity, difference, alterity and alternate ordering" (ibid, p.
Hamartoma of the tuber cinereum (Figure 21) is a developmental heterotopia, which presents in childhood as precocious puberty and seizures (i.
They are landscapes without genealogy, heterotopias that insist on the freedom to call into reality something that has not yet existed, which cannot exist.
 
 
 
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