bicorn

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Pregnancy often takes place in a unicorn or bicorn uterus, leading to similar anomalous conditions.

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  • Pregnancy often takes place in a unicorn or bicorn uterus, leading to similar anomalous conditions. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The two culprits confine themselves to a platonic love, in which their passion, at least, leaves no visible traces among posterity; while the bicorn Minotaur is unhappiness with all its fruits. —  The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3
 

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  1. from Latin bicornis, two-horned, from bi-, two-, + cornu = English horn. Cf. bickern.
 

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