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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 September 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 ...
Nutrition and pregnancy refers to the nutrient intake, and dietary planning that is undertaken before, during and after pregnancy. Nutrition of the fetus begins at conception. For this reason, the nutrition of the mother is important from before conception (probably several months before) as well as throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Polycephaly. Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly (Greek: "πολύ") meaning "many" and kephalē (Greek: "κεφαλή") meaning "head". A polycephalic organism may be thought of as one being with a supernumerary body part, or as two or more beings with a shared body.
To make your pregnancy eating plan less stressful, we asked Vanessa Rissetto, registered dietitian and CEO o 19 Pregnancy Super-Foods You Can Eat During All 3 Trimesters, According to a ...
Conjoined twins, popularly referred to as Siamese twins, [ 1 ][ 2 ] are twins joined in utero. [ a ] It is a very rare phenomenon, estimated to occur in anywhere between one in 49,000 births to one in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa. [ 5 ] Approximately half are stillborn, and an additional one ...
Superfetation. Superfetation (also spelled superfoetation – see fetus) is the simultaneous occurrence of more than one stage of developing offspring in the same animal. [1][2][3] In mammals, it manifests as the formation of an embryo from a subsequent menstrual cycle, while another embryo or fetus is already present in the uterus.
Craniopagus parasiticus. Drawing of a skull of a child born in 1783 in Bengal, affected by craniopagus parasiticus. Craniopagus parasiticus is an extremely rare type of parasitic twinning occurring in about 4 to 6 of 10,000,000 births. [1] In craniopagus parasiticus, a parasitic twin head with an undeveloped body is attached to the head of a ...
Pregnancy in fish. Appearance. A pregnant Southern platyfish. Pregnancy has been traditionally defined as the period of time eggs are incubated in the body after the egg-sperm union. [ 1 ] Although the term often refers to placental mammals, it has also been used in the titles of many international, peer-reviewed, scientific articles on fish, e ...