quadruplets
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Naturally conceived quadruplets are extremely rare, with doctors estimating the odds at about one in 700,000 births.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“These are my adopted grandkids,” Jablonsky said, pulling Jax up onto her lap while three of the four quadruplets piled around her feet.
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
And the risk of spontaneous loss for the entire pregnancy is 25% for quadruplets, 15% for triplets, and 8% for twins.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022
According to his deductions, twins occur once in 88 births; triplets, once in 7910; and quadruplets, once in 371,126.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)