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Ectopy vs Firing - What's the difference?

ectopy | firing |


As nouns the difference between ectopy and firing

is that ectopy is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position while firing is the process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.

As a verb firing is

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Ectopy vs Focus - What's the difference?

ectopy | focus |


As nouns the difference between ectopy and focus

is that ectopy is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position while focus is (countable|optics) a point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

As a verb focus is

to cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

Ectropy vs Ectopy - What's the difference?

ectropy | ectopy |


As nouns the difference between ectropy and ectopy

is that ectropy is (thermodynamics) the overall increase in the organization of a system while ectopy is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.

Ectopy vs Ectomy - What's the difference?

ectopy | ectomy |


As nouns the difference between ectopy and ectomy

is that ectopy is (pathology) the condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position while ectomy is (medicine) any operation involving surgical excision or removal.