Conjoined twins, popularly referred to as Siamese twins, are twins joined in utero. It is a very rare phenomenon, estimated to occur in anywhere between...
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Re A (conjoined twins) [2001] 2 WLR 480 is a Court of Appeal (England and Wales) decision on the separation of conjoined twins. The case raised legal and...
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that also produces vanishing twins and conjoined twins, and may represent a continuum between the two. In parasitic twins, one ceases development during...
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each twin). Conjoined twins appear in one in 50,000 to one in 100,000 births. Dicephalic twins represent about 11 percent of all conjoined twins. As late...
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Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. Twins can be either monozygotic ('identical'), meaning that they develop from one zygote, which...
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demonstrated that a successful outcome is possible. Among all conjoined twins, craniopagus twins account for a mere 2% to 6%. The first classification system...
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Abby and Brittany Hensel (redirect from Hensel twins)
American conjoined twins. They are dicephalic parapagus twins (having two heads joined to one torso), and are highly symmetric for conjoined twins. Each...
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Siamese twin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Siamese twins or conjoined twins are identical twins whose bodies are conjoined in utero. Siamese twins may...
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Lori and George Schappell (redirect from Schappell twins)
2024) were American conjoined twins. George performed as a country singer. As of 2020, they were the oldest living conjoined twins in the world. Guinness...
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Daisy and Violet Hilton (redirect from Hilton Twins)
The Siamese Twins, The Hilton Sisters and The Brighton Twins or The Brighton Conjoined Twins and in the United States as the San Antonio Twins. The sisters...
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Abdulaziz Al Saud concerning Malaysian conjoined twins, Ahmed and Mohammed. Al Rabeeah performed the surgery on the twins in September 2002. The numerous surgical...
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Katie and Eilish Holton (redirect from Katie and Eilish Holton (conjoined twins))
– 4 April 1992) and Eilish Holton (born 24 August 1988) were Irish conjoined twins born to Mary and Liam Holton of Donadea, County Kildare. They were...
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"world's most beautiful identical twins." List of triplets List of multiple births Twins in mythology Conjoined twins "The Biography of Angela Eagle"....
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the first known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological...
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Ronnie and Donnie Galyon (category Conjoined twins)
American conjoined twins from Dayton, Ohio. According to the 2009 Guinness World Records, the Galyons were the oldest living set of conjoined twins in the...
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Ischiopagi (category Conjoined twins)
for conjoined twins (Class V) who are united at the pelvis. The twins are classically joined with the vertebral axis at 180°. The conjoined twins usually...
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Chang and Eng Bunker (redirect from Bunker Twins)
(Thai)-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression "Siamese twins" to become synonymous for conjoined twins in general. They...
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Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (category Conjoined twins)
krʲɪvəˈʂlʲapəvə]; 3 January 1950 – 17 April 2003) were Ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins from Russia. They were removed from their mother's custody at birth...
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Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru (redirect from Dogaru twins)
Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru (born 13 January 2004) are craniopagus conjoined twins. They were scheduled to begin the first of several surgeries to separate...
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Stuck on You (film) (category Fiction about conjoined twins)
they are indeed conjoined twins, shocked at the lie, she flees. Morty informs the twins that word has leaked about them being conjoined. Rather than hide...
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Kendra and Maliyah Herrin (redirect from The Herrin Twins, Kendra and Maliyah.)
February 26, 2002) are former conjoined twins. They were separated in August 2006. They were the first set of conjoined twins to be separated to share a...
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Patrick and Benjamin Binder (category Conjoined twins)
Patrick and Benjamin Binder (born 2 February 1987) were conjoined twins, joined at the head, born in Germany in February 1987, and separated at Johns...
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Ladan and Laleh Bijani (redirect from The Bijani Twins)
inquest was held after the deaths of the conjoined twins and their deaths were ruled a misadventure. The twins operation was referenced in an episode of...
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Sisters (1972 film) (category Fiction about conjoined twins)
Loisel Institute on the Blanchion Twins, Canada's first conjoined twins. Grace's further investigations uncover that the twins were separated only recently...
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Craniopagus parasiticus (category Parasitic twin)
parasitic twin and conjoined twins is that in parasitic twins, one twin, the parasite, stops development during gestation, whereas the other twin, the autosite...
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Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo (category People with parasitic twins)
Colloredo and Joannes Baptista Colloredo (1617 – after 1646) were Italian conjoined twins who toured freak shows in 17th-century Europe. They were born in Genoa...
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Alone (2007 film) (category Fiction about conjoined twins)
Vadhanapanich in her first film role in 15 years. Pim and Ploy are twin sisters both conjoined at the stomach. Pim is very sweet, caring, and protective, especially...
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Polycephaly (category Conjoined twins)
and form by the same process as conjoined twins from monozygotic twin embryos. In humans, there are two forms of twinning that can lead to two heads being...
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Krista and Tatiana Hogan (redirect from Hogan twins)
Tatiana Hogan (born October 25, 2006) are Canadians who are conjoined craniopagus twins. They are joined at the head and share a skull and a brain. They...
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Millie and Christine McKoy (redirect from Carolina Twins)
African-American pygopagus conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The United African Twins": 125 "The Carolina Twins", "The Two-Headed Nightingale"...
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