superfetation is normal in some animal species. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's called "superfetation," and I guess it happens... not only can you get pregnant while on your period, etc., I guess you can get pregnant ANYTIME. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Transports, that escape from the Gallows, to the Plantations abroad, and a superfetation of Felons, to give a little Business to our Judges. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
Erasistratus, that superfetation may happen to women as to irrational creatures; for, if the womb be well purged and very clean, then there can be divers births. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
She addressed the controller of excise as “M. Chatelet,” and left that gentleman thunderstruck by the discovery that she knew about the illegal superfetation of the particle. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
He became the victim of a sort of intellectual superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
If true, she is experiencing a rare phenomenon called superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Emaxhealth] Reference
Argles mentions simultaneous extrauterine fetation and superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Baudeloque speaks of a case of superfetation observed by Desgranges in. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The medical literature on superfetation is more anecdotal than scientific. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Argles 2.39 mentions simultaneous extrauterine fetation and superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
There have been only 10 recorded cases of the phenomenon, dubbed superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Hospital, says he has never encountered a case of superfetation during practice. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
It then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, the national character. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Baudeloque 1.248 speaks of a case of superfetation observed by Desgranges in Lyons in 1780. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
But mark the superfetation of omens -- omen supervening upon omen, augury engrafted upon augury. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
In this strange case, possibly an example of superfetation, the patient made a good recovery and the first child lived. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
"Beyond a shadow of a doubt, we believe it's superfetation and that there is no slower development for the smaller child," Julia said. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
An amniocentesis could confirm superfetation, but the Grovenburgs have decided against that test because of possible danger to the fetuses. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Some have suggested that the Grovenburgs are pushing the superfetation story because of the international publicity the story has generated. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
By definition, superfetation, extremely rare in humans, is the formation of a fetus while another embryo is already developing in the uterus. From Wordnik.com. [foodconsumer.org] Reference
She was suspected by the native people and thought to be an adulteress, and some of the children were supposed to be the result of superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The question as to whether a case like this would be one of superfetation in a normal uterus, or whether the uterus was double, would immediately arise. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In twin pregnancies there is sometimes a delay of many days in the birth of a second child, even to such an extent as to give suspicion of superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
At birth the boy looked premature, about seven months old, which being the case, the girl must have been either a superfetation or a seven months 'child also. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
She addressed the controller of excise as "M. Chatelet," and left that gentleman thunderstruck by the discovery that she knew about the illegal superfetation of the particle. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
In December of the same year she was unexpectedly delivered of another child, a product of superfetation, which proclaimed the crime that she had so cunningly concealed before. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The chemist at once went to him and said — “This velvet seems to me a superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
A case like this would be one of superfetation in a normal uterus, or whether the uterus was double, would immediately arise. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Napoleon, was merely a superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference
This implies that superfetation is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Emaxhealth] Reference
It's called superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Blisstree] Reference
A superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
24 i.e. a superfetation of iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"This velvet seems to me a superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Marcellus Donatus, Goret, Schacher, and Mauriceau mention superfetation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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