What are 10 twins called?

Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.
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What are 12 babies born at once called?

If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
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What would 9 Twins be called?

Nonuplets (9)

A set of nonuplets was born on 13 June 1971, in Sydney, Australia to Geraldine Brodrick and her husband Leonard. They were five boys and four girls; two of the boys were stillborn and the last of the surviving babies, a boy named Richard, died six days after the birth.
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What is it called when you have 8 Twins?

Octuplets are a set of eight offspring born at one birth. An individual that is part of such a set is called an octuplet.
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What is 5 sets of Twins called?

Some names for these are: Twins for 2 fetuses. Triplets for 3 fetuses. Quadruplets for 4 fetuses. Quintuplets for 5 fetuses.
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What is 10 babies born at once called?

– Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.
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What is the word for 12 twins?

If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
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What are Momo twins?

What are monoamniotic twins? Monoamniotic twins occur when a single fertilized ovum (egg) results in identical twins that share a common placenta and amniotic sac. Monoamniotic twins are very uncommon, representing approximately one percent of identical twins and less than 0.1 percent of all pregnancies.
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What is 9 babies called?

Nonuplets: Woman From Mali Gives Birth To 9 Babies.
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What is the rarest twin?

Monoamniotic-monochorionic Twins

These types of twins share a chorion, placenta, and an amniotic sac. This is the rarest type of twin, and it means a riskier pregnancy as the babies can get tangled in their own umbilical cords.
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What is the most twins born at once?

Multiple births of as many as eight babies have been born alive, the first surviving set on record goes to the Suleman octuplets, born in 2009 in Bellflower, California.
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What twins skip a generation?

The notion that twins always skip a generation is also a myth. The illusion may have arisen because men who inherit the gene from their mothers are unaffected by it ( they do not ovulate), but can still pass it on to their daughters, who, in turn, will have an increased likelihood of conceiving twins.
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What are 21 babies called?

Typically, a baby is born with 46 chromosomes. Babies with Down syndrome have an extra copy of one of these chromosomes, chromosome 21. A medical term for having an extra copy of a chromosome is 'trisomy. ' Down syndrome is also referred to as Trisomy 21.
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What is coffin birth?

The authors of the study suggest that the burial offers a rare example of “post-mortem fetal extrusion,” or “coffin birth,” which occurs when gases build up inside of the body of a deceased pregnant woman and force the fetus out of the birth canal.
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What do you call babies born 16 months apart?

Irish twins: According to various sources, Irish twins are siblings born within 12-18 months of each other.
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What is a mermaid twin?

This amniotic sac ruptures when a pregnant womans's water breaks before she goes into labour. It rarely happens that a woman goes into labour without her water breaking and in those cases, the baby is delivered fully or partially covered in amniotic sac. It is called mermaid birth.
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What is a pseudo twin?

Pseudo-twins can form in ordered structures under high stress conditions. These twins are defined by lattice sites that are at twin positions but are incorrectly occupied by different species of atoms.
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What are the 7 types of twins?

Different Types of Twins
  • Types of Twins.
  • Monozygotic Twins.
  • Dizygotic Twins.
  • Conjoined Twins.
  • Superfetation.
  • Heteropaternal Superfecundation.
  • Polar Body Twins.
  • Semi-Identical Twins.
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What do you call triple twins?

If you're carrying two babies, they are called twins. Three babies that are carried during one pregnancy are called triplets. You can also carry more than three babies at one time (high-order multiples).
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What can I say instead of twinsies?

Synonyms of twins
  • halves.
  • companions.
  • similarities.
  • mates.
  • matches.
  • fellows.
  • counterparts.
  • replicas.
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Is it possible to have 9 babies at once?

“It's not easy, but it's great,” their dad says of caring for so many kids. The world's only living nonuplets — that is, nine babies from the same birth — are thriving and reaching their milestones, according to their father.
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Who is the lady with 9 babies?

Malian Woman Halima Cisse, Who Gave Birth To 9 Babies, Returns Home.
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How many sets of twins exist?

There are two types of twins – identical (monozygotic) and fraternal (dizygotic).
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