quadruplets
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The four girls, who were delivered via caesarean section at 28 weeks and four days on 14 July, were monozygotic quadruplets - where a single fertilised egg splits into four embryos.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“That would be so fun meeting chickens,” said 7-year-old Mason, who wore a matching yellow sweater with his fellow quadruplets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
They theorized that the atom is actually doing many things simultaneously: scattering not only single photons but also, through an entirely different process, photonic pairs, triplets and quadruplets.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
Speaking by phone, he told me about the call he received from a colleague that led to the first selective reduction procedure: A woman in Western Michigan had become pregnant with quadruplets.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022
Twins, triplets, and quadruplets were six times as frequent as among normal families.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
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