(1) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) Led team of 70 to separate twins conjoined at the head in the first-ever surgery of its kind.
(4) Obstetrical planning is more likely to be successful with antepartum diagnosis, which can be done only if the possibility of conjoining is considered with each twin gestation.
(5) In contrast to many other classification systems the professor in Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam Louis Bolk divided conjoined twins in only three main groups: 1 greater than diplopagi simplex caudad; 2 greater than diplopagi simplex craniad; 3 greater than diplopagi simplex mesad.
(6) Because early diagnosis of conjoined twins is so difficult as to be almost impossible it is usually only made in labour.
(7) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(8) The total prevalence of conjoined twins (birth + prenatally diagnosed) was 1:68,000 in the study of 1970-1986.
(9) Pathologic examination of the conjoined female fetuses revealed a single, non-duplicated heart, two livers connected at the right lobe, completely separate bile ducts and digestive tract, and a single placenta and umbilical cord containing two arteries and six veins.
(10) The people of Syria have suffered ever more as a result.” The groups cited the case of the conjoined twins, Moaz and Nawras Hashash.
(11) Thoracoomphalopagus was the most common type of conjoining, occurring in five cases (36%).
(12) Despite the increased variability of spacing and consequent local crowding, including examples of conjoined placentas in the treated rats, there was no evidence that these local factors affected placental growth or weight of individual fetuses.
(13) At the follow-up examination a median of 9 (2-11) years after the operation, a reduction in the hallux valgus angle from 32 degrees to 26 degrees and in the intermetatarsal angle from 13 degrees to 10 degrees was found; but on analyzing the single parts of the operation, we found that the result was only significant in those patients that had had the original procedures done, i.e., tenotomy and reattachment of the conjoined tendon, lateral capsulotomy, and lateral sesamoidectomy.
(14) The extensor digitorum brevis muscle island and separate vascularized second metatarsal osteocutaneous flap represent one of many possible technical combinations of conjoined flaps based on the dorsalis pedis source vessel.
(15) Three cases of conjoined twins are presented: two thorocopagus and one craniopagus.
(16) Female conjoined twins were delivered after 42 weeks' gestation, but they died within a few minutes of birth.
(17) The current excellent outcomes, even in difficult cases of conjoined twinning, suggest that separation should always be considered, with rare exception.
(18) It is suggested that if conjoined twins are diagnosed before labour, of if there is dystocia, Caesarean section is the treatment of choice.
(19) The indispensable conjoined action of the interosseus muscles through the collateral tendon is demonstrated by Duchene in 1867.
(20) The case group was compared to two control groups and it appeared that the periconceptional use of oral contraception and ovulation induction were mentioned more frequently in pregnancies resulting in conjoined twins.
Conjoint
Definition:
(a.) United; connected; associated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(2) The tendons of insertion of the latissimus dorsi and the teres major muscles and the tendon of origin of the long head of the triceps brachii muscle were united, forming a conjoint tendon that attached to the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula and the lower part of the anatomical neck of the humerus adhering to the articular capsule of the shoulder joint.
(3) Histologically, the phlebectatic and parenchymal types, which were presumed to be separate, were found conjointly in this case.
(4) Results revealed that conjoint format was most acceptable, followed by group and individual, respectively.
(5) The results of this survey provide only suggestive evidence regarding aetiology, but strongly support conjoint assessment of the elderly.
(6) The total data set consisted of (1) a cohort of 31,150 live-born children one or both of whose parents received greater than 0.01 Sv of radiation at the time of the atomic bombings (average conjoint gonad exposure 0.43 Sv) and (2) two suitable comparison groups totaling 41,066 children.
(7) Cadaver shoulders were subsequently dissected to determine if the tendons had conjoint or separate insertions.
(8) Also, all predictions erred in the direction of underrating the overall effectiveness of conjoint family therapy.
(9) Results revealed a clear and consistent pattern of preference for conjoint therapy, followed by concurrent, group, and individual formats, respectively.
(10) Eight couples required additional short-term sex therapy, and 11 couples were treated primarily with individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy or conjoint therapy for an extended period of time.
(11) An attempt was made to quantify the relative impact of health and income on life satisfaction through an analysis of conjoint influence with contingency tables.
(12) Results for one dimension suggest that threshold behavior is analogous to a chain reaction with criticality determined conjointly by the susceptibility of individuals within a community to a nexus of behavior conducive to rapid HIV spread and by the probability of transmission between susceptible communities.
(13) Conjoint injection of the same amounts of carbachol and isoproterenol resulted in an increase in the gain of the OKR by 0.29 without significant changes in the gains of the VOR in the light or in darkness.
(14) Pair comparisons enable a (partial) test of the axioms of additive conjoint measurement.
(15) Hierarchical multiple regression analyses examined the conjoint effects of social support and problematic interactions on symptoms of depression.
(16) The significance of conjoint-based computer simulation as a tool in program development or dissemination, salient methodological issues, and implications for further research are discussed.
(17) Apparent splitting of the conjoint tendon was found in 19 instances (26%) and previously occult indirect inguinal hernias were discovered in six (8%).
(18) Thus, not only do both systems act conjointly to produce the defensive withdrawal reflex, but also they have similar response properties and are well matched to mediate the two parts of this siphon behavior.
(19) In the analysis, the children were classified into four family contexts that were defined conjointly by family social status and parents' academic socialization.
(20) New methods for determining mean frequency and spectral purity (the latter as a new measure, the Spectral Purity Index, which has a maximum value of 1.0 for a pure sine wave) permit their conjoint evaluation over a 0.5 sec window that is advanced along the EEG in 0.1 sec steps, thus permitting almost continuous feature extraction.