Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Word of the Day

Word of the Day
After M and I decided to stop fertility treatments I started thinking about going back to school and getting my Master’s degree.  I started looking into what the entrance exams required and signed up for a daily email for a word of the day.  The entrance exams had a verbal section and I wanted to expand my verbal word recognition.  I passed my entrance exam last year but I still get the word of the day emails.  Today I got my first infertility related word of the day after almost 2 years of these emails!  Here is a link to the actual website for the word. 
The word today is ectopic.  The definition is “Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced”.  Also for the origin of the word, “Ectopic is from the invented Greek word ectopia meaning "out of place." It was coined in 1873.” 

I have never had an ectopic pregnancy, but I know too many infertility bloggers have.

I was just excited to see an infertility topic in my emails this morning and thought I would share it in this post.

3 comments:

  1. WOW...2 years. You'd think that would be under science and would have appeared sooner.

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  2. I think it's good if people know what ectopics are. (I had two very different ectopics - I'm an expert!) Interesting that it took two years for an infertility/pregnancy loss term to turn up.

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  3. That's really interesting. :-D

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