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Article: Conjoined twins.(Health)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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Last week, all our newspapers headlined the successful separation of Filipino conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre. I think it would make interesting reading if you write about conjoined twins. How do conjoined twins differ from Siamese twins? Mark R., Manila
Conjoined twins and Siamese twins are synonymous terms that refer to twins who are anatomically joined together. Conjoined twins is really the more appropriate term, but for a time, the more popular phrase used to refer to the condition is "Siamese twins," a term coined for the first pair of conjoined twins that has caught the publics fancy, Eng and Chang Bunker.
The Bunker twins were born ...