ectopic \ek-TOP-ik\, adjective:
Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.
It does not appear that any modern author, or any of our large numbers of "systems" of surgery, has taken up this important aspect of "ectopic tumors."
-- Dr. Thomas H. Manley, The Medical Times and Register, Vol. 33 - 34
Diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was made and immediate operation decided upon.
-- Dr. J. Henry Barbat, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 32
is from the invented Greek word ectopia meaning "out of place." It was coined in 1873.
I had never thought of this word in these varied terms. I suppose many and sundry things could be called ectopic, if the
main definition of it is to be out of place.
ie. I often see people that feel ectopic when going to strange places, with people they don't know..