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Definition of conjoined
: being, coming, or brought together so as to meet, touch, overlap, or unite conjoined heads on a coin
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The Bronx, New York Get an exclusive look inside the operating room as surgeons separate 13-month-old conjoined twins Jadon and Anias McDonald.
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The Bronx, New York Get an exclusive look inside the operating room as surgeons separate 13-month-old conjoined twins Jadon and Anias McDonald.
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The two-headed porpoise, which is in fact a set of conjoined twins, was described in a recent paper published in the Online Journal of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.
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Twins are rare for porpoises and cetaceans—and conjoined twins are even more rare.
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Their condition, called craniopagus, is the least common type of conjoined twins.
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A team successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twins during an 11-hour surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said Tuesday.
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Since childhood, Crespo’s body image has been that of a pair of conjoined twins, influenced by a reality-television show about two sisters, Abby and Brittany Hensel.
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First Known Use of conjoined
1570
Medical Dictionary
conjoined
play
adjective
con·joined
\kən-ˈjȯind, kän-\
Medical Definition of conjoined
: of, relating to, or being conjoined twins conjoined twinning conjoined twin neonates
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