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Definition of conjoined twins in English: conjoined twinsplural noun Twins that are physically joined at birth, sometimes sharing organs, and in some cases separable by surgery (depending on the degree of fusion). Example sentencesExamples - Two sets of conjoined twins have been separated at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, which is caring for the twins.
- Other than conjoined twins, I can't think of another example of two people - one body.
- Biology and environment are as inseparable as conjoined twins who share a common heart.
- There is a sort of decadence in our fascination with conjoined twins.
- It is a film with its heart in the right place, even if it often feels like a one-joke movie in which the daily challenges of being conjoined twins are milked for every possible gag and observation.
- He hated publicity, but his work on cranially conjoined twins attracted attention.
- Well you two might as well be conjoined twins.
- They get themselves a fitting agent who lives in a retirement home and drives along in a wheelchair, but remarks knowingly that conjoined twins will be a tough sell.
- They gambled everything to lead independent lives, but yesterday the brave conjoined twins whose plight has gripped the world for months lost everything.
- The controversial case of conjoined twins, recently decided by the Court of Appeal in England, has been different.
- Joan's mother used to joke around, saying that she never remembered giving birth to conjoined twins.
- Doctors remain unsure why such conjoined twins do not fully separate while in their mother's womb.
- A neurosurgeon who assisted in the failed attempt to separate adult conjoined twins from Iran has said the operation should have been done in several stages instead of one procedure.
- The conjoined twins, who are now doing well in intensive care, were joined mid-chest to mid-abdomen and their livers were fused.
- There are giants and small people and circuses and conjoined twins and people with 1950s-type haircuts and small-town smiles in strange situations.
- I wonder though - is it really a frightening ‘sign of things to come’ or is it just like human conjoined twins?
- Of course, the subject matter is about as taboo as it gets, after all, this is a comedy about conjoined twins.
- As for personal identity, there are plenty of philosophical discussions of ‘brain-division, brain transplantation, bodily fusion and so on’, but none, I think, of conjoined twins.
- The young mother had no idea she had delivered a pair of conjoined twins until a month after the birth.
- Just as women and racial minorities have come to be recognised as different but equal, so, she argues, society must come to respect the rights of conjoined twins, of intersexuals, of people born with cleft palates, of dwarves and giants.
- Doctors here in the U.S. are operating on another set of conjoined twins, the first of several surgeries taking place New York right now for a pair of 18-month-old Filipino boys.
- The hospital has separated 20 conjoined twins since 1975, eight of whom have survived, including two whose twins had not completely developed.
- The act seems properly described as a surgical intervention to separate conjoined twins.
- Medical oddities such as conjoined twins, odd-shaped foetuses and babies with congenital abnormalities interested those who wanted to know about such things at first hand.
- Throughout recorded history there are many references to surviving conjoined twins.
- Her primary subject is conjoined twins, one of the most extreme examples, but she also brings into the story people with cleft lips, dwarfs, giants, and hermaphrodites.
- Even when their twin was dying, many conjoined twins have accepted their own deaths over separation.
- Straight ahead, 2-year-old conjoined twins spend their first day apart after surgery.
- It's a false dichotomy: or, at best, a crude attempt to separate conjoined twins.
- Sentimentality and sappiness have always been as difficult to separate as conjoined twins.
- Doctors performed four major surgeries since October to gradually separate the boys, instead of the marathon sessions used in previous separations of conjoined twins.
- In this unfortunate situation, they have a tendency to rely on dubious authorities, like a local ‘expert’ on conjoined twins who held a press conference after what must have been a very brief session reading up on his subject.
- Well, following more than 18 hours of surgery, one of the conjoined twins from Germany has died.
- It's actually an extremely rare birth defect caused by an undeveloped conjoined twin.
- Continuing advances in medicine prompt this question, which has been brought sharply into focus in the last few years by the issue of the separation of conjoined twins.
- Specifically, I am referring to an act that purported to be a pair of conjoined twins who aspire to be opera singers.
- This is a collection of stories about people with genetic irregularities: conjoined twins, babies born with one eye, people who are unusually small, or tall, or hairy.
- One of the conjoined twins fails to develop fully in the womb.
- A simple preliminary question: should the birth of conjoined twins be counted as one birth or two?
- Every time we hear about medical efforts to separate conjoined twins, especially twins who are joined together in such an intimate way, there is always, it seems, a risk to one of them or to another one of them.
UsageThe term conjoined twins has supplanted Siamese twins in all contexts other than informal conversation Definition of conjoined twins in US English: conjoined twinsplural nounkənˌdʒɔɪnd ˈtwɪnzkənˌjoind ˈtwinz Twins that are physically joined at birth, sometimes sharing organs, and in some cases separable by surgery (depending on the degree of fusion). Example sentencesExamples - The conjoined twins, who are now doing well in intensive care, were joined mid-chest to mid-abdomen and their livers were fused.
- The controversial case of conjoined twins, recently decided by the Court of Appeal in England, has been different.
- Of course, the subject matter is about as taboo as it gets, after all, this is a comedy about conjoined twins.
- Other than conjoined twins, I can't think of another example of two people - one body.
- I wonder though - is it really a frightening ‘sign of things to come’ or is it just like human conjoined twins?
- Even when their twin was dying, many conjoined twins have accepted their own deaths over separation.
- Two sets of conjoined twins have been separated at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, which is caring for the twins.
- Well, following more than 18 hours of surgery, one of the conjoined twins from Germany has died.
- As for personal identity, there are plenty of philosophical discussions of ‘brain-division, brain transplantation, bodily fusion and so on’, but none, I think, of conjoined twins.
- It is a film with its heart in the right place, even if it often feels like a one-joke movie in which the daily challenges of being conjoined twins are milked for every possible gag and observation.
- The act seems properly described as a surgical intervention to separate conjoined twins.
- It's a false dichotomy: or, at best, a crude attempt to separate conjoined twins.
- The hospital has separated 20 conjoined twins since 1975, eight of whom have survived, including two whose twins had not completely developed.
- Her primary subject is conjoined twins, one of the most extreme examples, but she also brings into the story people with cleft lips, dwarfs, giants, and hermaphrodites.
- There are giants and small people and circuses and conjoined twins and people with 1950s-type haircuts and small-town smiles in strange situations.
- Just as women and racial minorities have come to be recognised as different but equal, so, she argues, society must come to respect the rights of conjoined twins, of intersexuals, of people born with cleft palates, of dwarves and giants.
- Medical oddities such as conjoined twins, odd-shaped foetuses and babies with congenital abnormalities interested those who wanted to know about such things at first hand.
- They gambled everything to lead independent lives, but yesterday the brave conjoined twins whose plight has gripped the world for months lost everything.
- It's actually an extremely rare birth defect caused by an undeveloped conjoined twin.
- Continuing advances in medicine prompt this question, which has been brought sharply into focus in the last few years by the issue of the separation of conjoined twins.
- The young mother had no idea she had delivered a pair of conjoined twins until a month after the birth.
- Biology and environment are as inseparable as conjoined twins who share a common heart.
- Every time we hear about medical efforts to separate conjoined twins, especially twins who are joined together in such an intimate way, there is always, it seems, a risk to one of them or to another one of them.
- They get themselves a fitting agent who lives in a retirement home and drives along in a wheelchair, but remarks knowingly that conjoined twins will be a tough sell.
- A neurosurgeon who assisted in the failed attempt to separate adult conjoined twins from Iran has said the operation should have been done in several stages instead of one procedure.
- A simple preliminary question: should the birth of conjoined twins be counted as one birth or two?
- Doctors here in the U.S. are operating on another set of conjoined twins, the first of several surgeries taking place New York right now for a pair of 18-month-old Filipino boys.
- There is a sort of decadence in our fascination with conjoined twins.
- Joan's mother used to joke around, saying that she never remembered giving birth to conjoined twins.
- Doctors remain unsure why such conjoined twins do not fully separate while in their mother's womb.
- Doctors performed four major surgeries since October to gradually separate the boys, instead of the marathon sessions used in previous separations of conjoined twins.
- One of the conjoined twins fails to develop fully in the womb.
- This is a collection of stories about people with genetic irregularities: conjoined twins, babies born with one eye, people who are unusually small, or tall, or hairy.
- Well you two might as well be conjoined twins.
- Sentimentality and sappiness have always been as difficult to separate as conjoined twins.
- In this unfortunate situation, they have a tendency to rely on dubious authorities, like a local ‘expert’ on conjoined twins who held a press conference after what must have been a very brief session reading up on his subject.
- Specifically, I am referring to an act that purported to be a pair of conjoined twins who aspire to be opera singers.
- Throughout recorded history there are many references to surviving conjoined twins.
- Straight ahead, 2-year-old conjoined twins spend their first day apart after surgery.
- He hated publicity, but his work on cranially conjoined twins attracted attention.
UsageThe term conjoined twins has supplanted Siamese twins in all contexts other than informal conversation |