conjoined twins

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twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separatedNon-technical name: Siamese twins

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Words nearby conjoined twins

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How to use conjoined twins in a sentence

I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.
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For now, Sabrine continues her daily routine of visits to the protest camp, to political leaders and taking care of the twins.
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The twins themselves, played beautifully by Erin Davie and Emily Padgett, are our inner voice and outer voice, says Condon.
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The McCanns say they are desperately worried about the safety of their nine-year old twins who are often subjects of online abuse.
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Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are hilarious as brother and sister in The Skeleton Twins.
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At an early hour in the evening the Farival twins were prevailed upon to play the piano.
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Or the Twins would smile and continue their play, for they could not understand why the water ran out of people's eyes.
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"No," said the Twins, "but there are no cats in the Milky Way," and they pulled the cat's tail thoughtfully.
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"She thinks that we are foundlings," said the Twins, and they trotted indoors to the evening meal.
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Whilst I was ill my wife presented me with twins, so that we had plenty of troubles at once.
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Medical definitions for conjoined twins

conjoined twins

pl.n.

Identical twins born with their bodies joined at some point and having varying degrees of residual duplication, a result of the incomplete division of the ovum from which the twins developed.diplosomia