Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In teratology, a double monster with union at the buttocks.
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Examples
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The brothers were attached to each other at the lower spine and pelvis, an unusual connection that made them what are known as pygopagus twins.
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The brothers were attached to each other at the lower spine and pelvis, an unusual connection that made them what are known as pygopagus twins.
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Joshua and Jacob were so-called pygopagus twins, a particularly rare form of conjoined twins in which the bodies are joined back to back at the pelvis and lower spine.
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Only once in the past 11 years have pygopagus twins been successfully separated with both children surviving, said Giancarlo Mari, director of the hospital's fetal center and a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
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The way Joshua and Jacob were joined makes them pygopagus twins, which represent about 15 percent of all conjoined twins, according to the hospital.
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Jacobi describes in full Tynberg's instance of pygopagus.
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A recent example of the pygopagus type was Rosa-Josepha Blazek.
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A recent example of the pygopagus type was Rosa-Josepha Blazek, 5.28 born in Skerychov, in Bohemia, January 20, 1878.
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Jacobi 5.30 describes in full Tynberg's instance of pygopagus.
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The way Joshua and Jacob were joined makes them pygopagus twins, which represent about 15 percent of all conjoined twins, according to the hospital.
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