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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cojoin.

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Examples

  • Some interesting books on freaks/human marvels (which is what many cojoined twins and people with parasitic twins did to make a living in the old days):

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • In the case of Chang and Eng Bunker, a pair of Thai cojoined twins who traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and from whom the term "siamese twins" comes, they were joined by "a band of flesh, cartilage, and their fused livers at the torso."

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • I don't exactly know why I am fascinated by cojoined twins.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Some interesting books on freaks/human marvels (which is what many cojoined twins and people with parasitic twins did to make a living in the old days):

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • I don't exactly know why I am fascinated by cojoined twins.

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • Except that in the case of cojoined twins, the split is incomplete.

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • In the case of Chang and Eng Bunker, a pair of Thai cojoined twins who traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and from whom the term "siamese twins" comes, they were joined by "a band of flesh, cartilage, and their fused livers at the torso."

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Twins that are cojoined at the head often cannot function together, but separation can lead to the death of one or both of them, as the brains are involved.

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • Except that in the case of cojoined twins, the split is incomplete.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Twins that are cojoined at the head often cannot function together, but separation can lead to the death of one or both of them, as the brains are involved.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

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