polycephaly
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Occurrences
- Occurrence in humans
- Dicephalus parapagus dipus
- Craniopagus parasiticus
- Occurrence in animals
- Anatomy and fitness
- Questions on number of organisms
- Two faces on one head
- Earliest known occurrence
- List of notable occurrences
- Dicephalic conjoined twins (dicephalus parapagus dipus)
- Craniopagus parasiticus
- Non-human mammals
- Cats
- Cattle
- Pigs
- Goats and sheep
- Mice
- Reptiles
- Snakes
- Turtles and Tortoises
- Choristoderes
- Birds
- Mythological occurrences
- Mesopotamian mythology
- Greek mythology
- Iranian mythology
- Hinduism
- Taoism
- Occultism
- Ancient Mediterranean civilizations
- European culture
- Eastern Europe
- Northern Europe
- Japan
- Korea
- Judaism
- Heraldry
- See also
- External links
thumb|The Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci|Tocci Brothers, c. 1881
Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly (Greek: "πολύ") meaning "many" and kephalē (Greek: "κεφαλή") meaning "head". A polycephalic organism may be thought of as one being with a supernumerary body part, or as two or more beings with a shared body.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “polycephaly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.