| conjoined anastomosis | The joining together of two small blood vessels by side-to-side elliptical anastomosis to create a single larger stoma for subsequent end-to-end anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| conjoined asymmetrical twins | Conjoined twin's in which one member is nearly normal (host or autosite) and the other (parasite) is small, incomplete, and dependent for its nutrition upon the more nearly normal member. Synonym: conjoined asymmetrical twins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjoined equal twins | Conjoined twin's in which both members are approximately of the same size, and nearly normal except for the areas of fusion. Synonym: conjoined symmetrical twins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjoined symmetrical twins | Conjoined twin's in which both members are approximately of the same size, and nearly normal except for the areas of fusion. Synonym: conjoined symmetrical twins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjoined tendon | Common tendon of insertion of the transversus and obliquus internus muscles into the crest and spine of the pubis and iliopectineal line; it is frequently muscular rather than aponeurotic and may be poorly developed; forms posterior wall of medial inguinal canal. See: aponeurosis of internal abdominal oblique muscle. Synonym: falx inguinalis, tendo conjunctivus, conjoined tendon, falx aponeurotica, inguinal aponeurotic fold. Contracted tendon, a condition of young horses in which the flexor tendon's of the leg are shortened. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjoined unequal twins | Conjoined twin's in which one member is nearly normal (host or autosite) and the other (parasite) is small, incomplete, and dependent for its nutrition upon the more nearly normal member. Synonym: conjoined asymmetrical twins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete conjoined twins | Conjoined twin's, the two components of which equal one another but are less than entire individuals. Monoamniotic twins, twin's within a common amnion; such twin's are monovular in origin and may be conjoined. (05 Mar 2000) |
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