Definition of "ectopically" [ectopically]

• In an ectopic manner (adverb)

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• "Thus even as a communion of churches, they exist as church "ectopically" as it were: authentic, and properly parts of the Church, but deficient by maintaining distance from an indispensable principle of communion, namely Rome."
• "HoxD12 is expressed at the boundary of the ceca/colon, and mice that ectopically express HoxD12 fail to show budding of the cecum."
• "One of many down-stream MYCN targets is miR-184, which is either directly or indirectly repressed by this transcription factor, possibly due to its pro-apoptotic effects when ectopically over-expressed in neuroblastoma cells."