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n. - Fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males).

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  • A Fox news report about a rare occurrence of heteropaternal superfecundation.
  • Only a handful of cases – of what doctors call heteropaternal superfecundation – are documented in the world.
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  • Two eggs had been fertilised by two different sperm in a rare occurrence called heteropaternal superfecundation.
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