What's the difference between singleton and twin?

Singleton


Definition:

  • (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (2) From the 32nd week on, the twins' mean weekly BPD increment decreased, this lesser growth rate being more marked than that of singletons.
  • (3) A review of the existing literature reveals that coexistent fetal skeletal dysplasia and hydramnios have an extremely poor prognosis, especially in the nonachondroplastic patient with singleton fetus.
  • (4) Mean birth weight and gestational age were similar among the three groups for singleton gestations.
  • (5) Fifty-three patients were studied between the 12th to 18th week, and 41 women were between the 34th to 40th week of an accurately dated, clinically normal, singleton pregnancy.
  • (6) But we can see in five years’ time it [becoming] best practice.” Drinks giant Diageo is a major investor in sensory marketing, launching multi-sensory spaces and apps for brands including Guinness, the Singleton and Johnnie Walker.
  • (7) A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple pregnancy is reduced to a singleton or a twin pregnancy to improve the likelihood that the remaining fetuses will reach viability.
  • (8) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (9) To determine the extent to which disparities in risk status and access to tertiary care affect racial differences in neonatal mortality rates among normal birth weight infants, we conducted a vital records study concerning normal weight black (N = 44,399) and white (N = 48,146) singleton births in Chicago.
  • (10) In contrast to singleton pregnancies, advanced labor with more than four centimeters cervical dilatation should not preclude good chances for successful treatment.
  • (11) These pregnancies resulted in 16 live births (7 singletons, 3 twins, 1 triplets).
  • (12) To test the hypothesis that dizygotic (DZ) twin mothers smoke more frequently than mothers of singletons and monozygotic (MZ) mothers, researchers have conducted a case control study in Denmark using as cases all women who gave birth to live born twins in 1984-1985.
  • (13) Since it is impossible to differentiate in a singleton pregnancy between these two types of FM on the basis of maternal perception alone, the natural model of twin pregnancy was used.
  • (14) In the screening group, 6.2% of liveborn singletons were small for gestational age (less than the 10th percentile) compared with 8.5% in the non-screening group (p less than 0.05).
  • (15) Three prepartum obstetrical risk-scoring methods (Goodwin, Halliday, Hobel) were retrospectively applied to a consecutive series of 795 singleton pregnancies.
  • (16) Fetal crown rump length (CRL) was measured weekly in 33 singleton pregnancies that were established after in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer or natural intercourse in monitored infertility treatment cycles.
  • (17) To evaluate the effectiveness of nurse-midwifery care in this sample, a prospective study of the service's 496 singleton birth outcomes during 1990 was undertaken.
  • (18) The 1,579,854 births and 14,591 deaths of singletons who were black or white and whose mothers were 25-49 years of age were included.
  • (19) By 1985 some 1342 singleton perinatal deaths had occurred.
  • (20) Also nowadays twin pregnancy is a risk pregnancy with a 2.3 fold higher perinatal mortality compared with singleton pregnancy in our matched-pair-group.

Twin


Definition:

  • (a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
  • (a.) Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
  • (a.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
  • (a.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
  • (n.) One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
  • (n.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
  • (n.) A person or thing that closely resembles another.
  • (n.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth twins.
  • (v. i.) To be born at the same birth.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
  • (v. t.) To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
  • (v. i.) To depart from a place or thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (2) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
  • (3) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
  • (4) From the 32nd week on, the twins' mean weekly BPD increment decreased, this lesser growth rate being more marked than that of singletons.
  • (5) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (6) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
  • (7) Therefore, we conclude that monochorionic twins can be considered monozygotic.
  • (8) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (9) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
  • (10) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
  • (11) Blood samples were obtained from 18 twin pairs, and the major prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) plasma metabolite 15-keto-13,14-dihydro-PGE2 was measured by RIA after its conversion to 11-deoxy-15-keto-13,14-dihydro-11 beta,16 xi-cyclo-PGE2.
  • (12) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (13) The affected twin had classical loss of sc fat from her face, upper arms, and trunk as well as associated hypocomplementemia, microscopic hematuria, and a borderline oral glucose tolerance test without hyperinsulinism.
  • (14) Neuropsychological testing of the affected twin demonstrated marked deficits in all areas of cognitive function.
  • (15) Therefore, this study evaluates the validity of zygosity diagnosis based on examination of placental membranes, and at the same time evaluates Weinberg's differential rule in a Danish consecutive twin series.
  • (16) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
  • (17) These adjusted correlation coefficients in MZ twins are 0.5 for both K1 and K5 blood pressure.
  • (18) Significant intraclass coefficients were observed in MZ twins for the different expressions of RMR.
  • (19) However, after the exclusion of cases with congenital abnormality association of low birth weight newborn infants and with genital anomalies of the male, the twin birth rate was 1.8 per cent.
  • (20) The size of right and left middle phalanges in the II-V fingers and the III finger have been studied in 108 pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins at 8--19 years of age and in 60 paris (pedagogical experiment) of separated twins (from the same pair), schoolchildren of the 2d--5th forms trained according different programs of physical culture.