Search All NYTimes.com. Anne Wolf Cochran, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cochran of Falls Church, Va., was married yesterday to William Charles Hamilton, the son of Mrs. Joseph S. Iseman of Rye, N.Y., and the late William H. Hamilton.
1 Conjoined twins occur in approximately one in 50,000 births, and the majority do not survive (they are stillborn).
Definition of Conjoined twin. Conjoined twin: Identical (monozygotic) twins that did not separate fully from one another but are still partially united. Due to the incomplete division of one fertilized ovum. Conjoined twins are popularly known as Siamese twins after Chang and Eng (1811-1874), the celebrated conjoined Chinese twins born in Siam (Thailand). Conjoin comes via French from the Latin conjungere, from com- + jungere, to join = to join or yoke together.