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Lakshmi Tatma is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria district, Bihar, with four arms and four legs.She was actually one of a pair of ischiopagus conjoined twins, one of which was headless because its head had atrophied and chest had not fully developed in the womb, causing the appearance of one child with four arms and four legs.
The conjoined twins usually have four arms; two, three or four legs; and typically one external genitalia and anus. [1] It is mostly confused with pygopagus where the twins are joined dorsally at the buttocks facing away from each other, whereas ischiopagus twins are joined ventrally and caudally at the sacrum and coccyx. Parapagus is also ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. American conjoined twins (born 1990) Abby and Brittany Hensel Born Abigail Loraine Hensel Brittany Lee Hensel (1990-03-07) March 7, 1990 (age 34) New Germany, Minnesota, U.S. Education Bethel University Occupation(s) Fifth-grade teachers at Sunnyside Elementary in New Brighton ...
Stevens, a congenital amputee, is the only athlete ever to play college football or minor league baseball without legs. [1] He stands 3-foot 2-inches tall and runs using his hands. At Wickenburg High School (Wickenburg, Arizona), 1980–1984, Stevens was a three-sport athlete playing football, baseball and wrestling. He set three Arizona state ...
The twin reversed arterial perfusion, or T.R.A.P. sequence, results in an 'acardiac twin', a parasitic twin that fails to develop a head, arms and a heart.The parasitic twin, little more than a torso with or without legs, receives its blood supply from the host twin by means of an umbilical cord-like structure, much like a fetus in fetu, except the acardiac twin is outside the autosite's body.
The twins were born at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Erin and Jake Herrin.They began their lives as conjoined twins of a form termed Ischiopagus (Type D) / Omphalopagus (Type B) conjoined twins, meaning that they were joined at the abdomen and the pelvis; they had between them an abdomen, pelvis, liver, kidney, large intestine and two legs (each twin ...
Jennifer Bricker was born on October 1, 1987 with no legs. [2] She was adopted by George and Sharon Bricker of Hardinville, Illinois. [14] She grew up with three older brothers. [9] Her adoption was closed, but her birth parents' names were on some documents.
Vujicic was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disability characterised by the absence of arms and legs. [10] According to Vujicic's autobiography, his mother refused to see him or hold him immediately after his birth; instead, she and her husband left the hospital. He was bullied at school because of his medical condition.