Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head, and so is an example of a supernumerary body part. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly- (Greek: "πολύ") meaning "multiple" and kephali- (Greek: "κεφάλι") meaning "head". A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders.There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in both reality and mythology. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no such animal is known to have ever existed.Bicephalic or tricephalic (two- and three-headed respectively) animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: they all result from the fusion of monozygotic twin embryos. One extreme example of this is the condition of craniopagus parasiticus, whereby a fully developed body has a parasitic twin head joined at the skull."@en }
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- Polycephaly abstract "Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head, and so is an example of a supernumerary body part. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly- (Greek: "πολύ") meaning "multiple" and kephali- (Greek: "κεφάλι") meaning "head". A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders.There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in both reality and mythology. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no such animal is known to have ever existed.Bicephalic or tricephalic (two- and three-headed respectively) animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: they all result from the fusion of monozygotic twin embryos. One extreme example of this is the condition of craniopagus parasiticus, whereby a fully developed body has a parasitic twin head joined at the skull.".