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The earliest known documented case of conjoined twins dates from the year 945??

It is certainly not the earliest known record of conjoined twins. There are records of conjoined twins in China dates from the years 1AD, 176AD, 184AD, 316AD.

Medical specimens

Image:Human conjoined twins DSC09364.jpg

Those photos of medical specimens are gruesome -- does anyone have a picture of living, healthy human conjoined twins? - Montréalais 20:53, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. I'm not for censorship but those are quite horrible. violet/riga (t) 21:59, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Right. To clarify, I didn't mean they should be]] Bjarmason 16:12, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

I've replaced the two-headed-corpse-in-bottle picture with the one from Chang and Eng Bunker. Plop 10:59, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

The picture of Chang and Eng is fine. I'm removing the other human one; feel free to put it back if you so desire. Junkyardprince | Tark 03:33, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I put the pictures back in, first of all because having another one does not cause trouble with the current layout (fits just perfectly), and second if one was to be removed I nominate the cattle, the anatomy of a human featus is better recognizable to the target audiance. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

I'll admit to being a bit surprised by the fetus picture when I came here to do the disambig. How about if it's moved into third place, so it's below the fold (so to speak), as a compromise? —Korath (Talk) 07:12, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

that seems like the best course of action to me. Thryduulf 22:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

In Uzbek city Khorezm were born new conjoined twins

July 21, 2006. New babies in Uzbek city Khorezm were born conjoined earlier this month according to news website ferghana.ru. Babies are boys. They are conjoined from the front abdomen and share common liver which will probably cause one of the babies' fatality in case if they will be separated. [1] [[2]]

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Its like a weasal word but its put by some one who is sypathetic &/or suppotive to what the article concerns and put there to make it sound more good then it really is? Whatever its called, all the articles linking from this page are FULL of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.130.215 (talk • contribs)

Triplets

Should anything be mentioned about conjoined triplets or the only known case of them?https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(04)01826-5/abstract Startrain844 (talk) 18:47, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notable cases

I removed some non-notable cases of conjoined twins per WP:NLIST, unless if there is an article exists. Also it does not meet general notability guideline (GNG) and minors and persons judged incompetent. Absolutiva (talk) 22:37, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]