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Post by JaineDough on May 19, 2008 9:57:43 GMT -5
May 18, 2008. ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long. "They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said. The girl has made a full recovery, he said. Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord. Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births. The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said  Never heard of any thing like this in my life |
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Post by coldfront06 on May 19, 2008 9:59:50 GMT -5
damn...her sister/brother was literally making her sick!
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Post by Bunny Hop on May 19, 2008 10:00:07 GMT -5
oh wow
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Post by QueenOH on May 19, 2008 10:01:02 GMT -5
I've heard of it b4
The girl in India with 4 arms was said to have absorbed her twin in the womb
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Post by ReignMan19 on May 19, 2008 10:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by JaineDough on May 19, 2008 10:06:24 GMT -5
ok not tryna be funny but....
when you hear about these special medical conditions they always happen are in other countries....like the baby with two faces.....and the half man half tree.....now this....all other countries....idk what the deal with that is but damn somethin needs 2 happen
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Post by LejaOMG on May 19, 2008 11:32:02 GMT -5
I've heard of it b4 The girl in India with 4 arms was said to have absorbed her twin in the womb they prolly thought she was Ganesh incarnate |
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Post by QueenOH on May 19, 2008 11:33:56 GMT -5
I've heard of it b4 The girl in India with 4 arms was said to have absorbed her twin in the womb they prolly thought she was Ganesh incarnate Her parents had the arms removed, but yeah people thought she was a God |
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Post by QueenOH on May 19, 2008 11:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by Colourgirlie on May 19, 2008 11:37:11 GMT -5
I've heard of it b4 The girl in India with 4 arms was said to have absorbed her twin in the womb they prolly thought she was Ganesh incarnate Actually Lakshmi, the four armed goddess of wealth. That's why her name is Lakshmi. |
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Post by The Elect Lady on May 22, 2008 8:15:35 GMT -5
There was this dude a while back that was MUCH older when they found his twin inside of him. The baby had teeth and nails.
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Post by BrnSuga on May 22, 2008 19:37:52 GMT -5
Wow!
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Post by Prissy New Year!!! on May 23, 2008 11:46:18 GMT -5
I have heard of this before, there was a 5 year old boy who had his twin removed. It was just a deformed head, with hair and eyes and everything. The "growth" was parasitical too.
There are also cases where people have 2 sets of DNA. The theory is that they absorbed their fraternal twin in the womb. I saw this on The Discovery Channel.
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Post by Mrs. Eyes on May 23, 2008 11:52:20 GMT -5
^ yeah they are called chimeras................and some of them are hermophodites.....
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Post by Colourgirlie on May 23, 2008 12:03:01 GMT -5
Biological science is amazing!
<--- thought about becoming a biotechnologist once
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Post by frozenmenace on May 23, 2008 13:30:41 GMT -5
DID YOU ALL HEAR ABOUT THE LADY IN INDIA WHO WAS PREGNANT FOR OVER 40 YEARS???!! I THINK IT WAS INDIA.
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Post by BrnSuga on May 23, 2008 13:47:40 GMT -5
Ewwwww! That's gross.
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Post by The Elect Lady on May 28, 2008 12:01:02 GMT -5
DID YOU ALL HEAR ABOUT THE LADY IN INDIA WHO WAS PREGNANT FOR OVER 40 YEARS???!! I THINK IT WAS INDIA. That just don't sound possible!!! |
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Never heard of any thing like this in my life
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