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lithopædion

lithopædion is the obsolete form of lithopedion.

Meaning of lithopedion

Noun

lithopedion (plural lithopedions or lithopedia)

  1. A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.
    Synonyms:
    stone baby

Forms of lithopædion

plurallithopædia

Questions about lithopædion

What is lithopædion the obsolete form of?
Lithopædion is the obsolete form of lithopedion.

Words near lithopædion in the dictionary

  1. lithoprinter
  2. lithoprinting
  3. lithoprints
  4. lithops
  5. lithopædia
  6. lithopædion
  7. lithornithid
  8. lithornithids
  9. lithos
  10. lithoscope
  11. lithoscopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lithopædion (page history and authors); lithopedion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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