Ectopia vs Heterotopia - What's the difference?
ectopia | heterotopia |
(pathology) The condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
(pathology) Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body
(ecology) The occurrence of an organism in a number of different habitats
(philosophy) A type of utopia that actually exists in a society
* 2002 , James W Flanagan, David M Gunn, Paula M McNutt, "Imagining" biblical worlds
In pathology|lang=en terms the difference between ectopia and heterotopia
is that ectopia is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position while heterotopia is (pathology) normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body.As nouns the difference between ectopia and heterotopia
is that ectopia is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position while heterotopia is (pathology) normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body.ectopia
English
(wikipedia ectopia)Noun
Derived terms
* ectopic ----heterotopia
English
Noun
(wikipedia heterotopia)- For Foucault, heterotopias are not imagined places but real places that almost delete themselves from public consciousness. They are null sites in awareness, yet inevitable and vital to the construction of space.