Multiple Births

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Quaternary twins refer to quadruplets from the same pregnancy who are all fourth-order multiples, meaning each set of quadruplets is born to parents who already have at least tw...

human-biology

Identical triplets, sometimes called monozygotic triplets, are exceptionally rare. They occur when a single fertilized egg splits to create three embryos with identical DNA, and...

reference

There is no single standardized word for five babies born at once from the same pregnancy; the situation is usually described as quintuplets, or more precisely, as a set of mult...

health-wellness

Quintuplets are one pregnancy outcome in which five offspring are born together. They are rare and high-multiparity births that draw attention partly because of their complexity...