I learned from Doctor Anonymous this morning that there's a real medical condition, called ectopia cordis, in which babies are born with their hearts outside their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Bisoi described the case -- called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in 1 million live births -- as a "lifetime opportunity" that might shed light on how to deal with similar conditions in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [AOL News] Reference

Dr. A reports on the progress of Naseem Hasni, born on Halloween, who's currently undergoing corrective surgery for this condition, and he includes a video clip about a young man named Christopher Wall, born in 1975, who when the clip was filmed held the record for being the longest-lived ectopia cordis patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach Me Tonight] Reference

There was ectopia vesicae and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus; the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened into the ureter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

There was ectopia vesicæ and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus; the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened into the ureter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Bisoi called the case -- called ectopia cordis, which only affects five to eight cases in one million live births -- a "lifetime opportunity" that might shed light on how to deal with similar conditions in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Although no many of secondary image was accustomed in norwegian trials, and no nonasthmatic deficiencies for comparable inpatient are offered, methods should manufacture developmental of the ectopia of long-term quick effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution] Reference

"The Masque" is a work for the English Theater and often came out as such, incorporating baudy humor, (funny only because it was taking place in the ectopia of Jordan Hall) juvenile antics and hackneyed drama which seemed more the subsistence of the work than the music itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper] Reference

A case of ectopia cordis, my boy, -- displacement of the heart; and it is n't every day you get a chance to overhaul such an interesting malformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

This is known as perineal ectopia testis.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs] Reference

No. 31 was probably a case of ectopia cordis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference