An abnormal condition in which a gland is positioned on the outside or surface of the body rather than in its normal internal location.
From Greek ektos 'outside' + aden 'gland' + -ia suffix for conditions. A rare medical term combining anatomical position with the identification of glandular tissue.
This is an extremely specialized medical term you'd almost never hear outside of pathology textbooks—it represents the kind of hyper-precise medical language that describes rare developmental abnormalities where glands end up in the wrong place.
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