Located in or relating to an abnormal position within the body; used in anatomy and pathology to describe misplaced structures.
Greek 'hetero-' (different) plus 'topous' (placed); variant adjectival form emphasizing the spatial displacement aspect.
Heterotopous tissue is the body's version of a misplaced file in the wrong folder—it exists, it might function, but it's creating organizational chaos.
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