| 单词 | octuplet pregnancy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoctuplet pregnancy 2. Each of eight siblings carried in a single pregnancy. Also attributive, esp. in octuplet pregnancy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > quadruplets, etc. quadruplet1781 quintuplet1860 sextuplet1860 octuplet1904 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 3 394 In the only authentic case of octuplets which I have been able to find (Boston Med. & Surg. Journal, Sept. 26, 1872) there were five boys and three girls. 1948 Jrnl. Heredity 39 205/2 The alleged case of octuplets all born alive and all living for a month is much more difficult to accept. 1979 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 1/6 Two of the octuplets born to a Naples woman on Thursday died yesterday, leaving five alive. 1984 Arch. Gynecol. 234 283 An octuplet pregnancy with survival of all liveborn babies in a woman treated with gonadotropins is described. 1991 E. Lax Woody Allen iv. 232 That she would settle on me, Harold Cohen, scrawny, long-nosed, twenty-four-year-old budding dramatist and whiner, was a non-sequitur on a par with octuplets. < as lemmas |
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