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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In teratology, a double monster connected by a band extending from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus. The Siamese twins constituted a xiphopagus. Also xiphodidymus.

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  • noun Either of a pair of congenitally joined twins (Siamese twin) united at the xiphoid process.

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