The original name of the country Thailand was Siam. The first known conjoined twins to survive to adulthood, Chang and Eng Bunker, were born in Siam. That is where the term "Siamese twins" came from.
Chang and Eng Bunker
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The term "Siamese twins" originated from Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins born in Siam (now Thailand) in the 19th century. They gained fame through traveling exhibitions and the term became associated with all conjoined twins. It is now considered outdated and replaced with the term "conjoined twins."
The term is "Siamese" twins and they are twins who are conjoined. Usually they share a vital organ or two making surgical separation impossible. They get their name from the original conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker who were from the country of Siam.
The most famous (Chinese) conjoined twins were the Siamese twins
the siamese. they get a lot of attention.
Siamese twins.
Siamese twins re two twins who have been joined together by a part of the body. E.G. Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-74) were joined by their stomacs.
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Conjoined twins are born attached. Sometimes they are called Siamese twins, too.
Siamese twins are an older, somewhat pejorative name for conjoined twins.The term comes from the brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) who were born in Thailand, which at the time was known as Siam. They became world famous in their day as a medical curiosity, before moving to the United States, marrying and settling down.
Conjoined twins. The older terminology was Siamese twins, after the first recorded twins in the country of Siam (now called Thailand).