Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In teratology, that twin in an unequal double monster which furnishes nutriment to the other, the latter being called the parasite or parasitic twin.
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- noun The
independent twin of a pair ofconjoined twins where the other twin isparasitic .
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Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.
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Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.
mollusque commented on the word autosite
The larger of unequal conjoined twins that is able to live independently and nourish the other twin.
January 6, 2008