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/ˌhɛt(ə)ɹəˈtəʊpiə/ · noun
(pathology) Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body.
Michel Foucault gave the museum and the mental hospital as two different examples of heterotopias.
For Foucault, heterotopias are not imagined places but real places that almost delete themselves from public consciousness. They are null sites in awareness, yet inevitable and vital to the construction of space.
Use heterotopia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heterotopia means (pathology) Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body.
Common synonyms include allotopia, ectopia, ectopy, dystopia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Michel Foucault gave the museum and the mental hospital as two different examples of heterotopias.
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