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Conjoined twins have fascinated people for centuries. They have been worshiped as gods and feared as monsters. They play a role in our myths and are marveled at in circus sideshows. Once called "monstrosities". Conjoined twins are increasingly accepted into our everyday lives as we grow to understand their usual physical and emotional bond and learn more about the science behind their development.(www.zygote).
The birth of two connected babies can be extremely traumatic and approximately 40-60% of these births are delivered stillborn with 35% surviving just one day. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5-25% and historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins with more than 70% of those surviving pairs resulting in female twins.(www.twinstuff).
Conjoined twins is an extremely rare form of identical twins that occur perhaps in one out of every 75,000 to 100,000 births or 1 in 200 deliveries of identical......

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