conjoined, ppl. a.
(kənˈdʒɔɪnd)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Joined together, united, combined; allied. conjoined manipulation (Med.): bi-manual examination.
| 1570 T. Norton Nowel's Catech. (1853) 187 With conjoined hearts and prayers we do..call upon our common Father. 1617 Wither Fidelia Juvenilia (1633) 470 To disunite hearts so conjoyn'd as our. 1656 Bramhall Replic. iv. 189 Nor have we separated our selves, from the conjoyned communion of the Christian World in any thing. 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 6/1 The conjoined tendons. 1872 Huxley Phys. vii. 167 The conjoined levers..present no smooth surfaces. 1875 tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. X. 10 The peculiarity of conjoined manipulation is, that the organs to be examined, are pressed between both hands. |
b. Occurring together in space or time.
| 1586 J. Hooker Girald. Irel. II. 149/1 By meanes of which their conioined aduancement, there entred a verie feruent affection..betweene them. 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 248 That because two things are always conjoined, one must be the cause of the other. |
c. Her. Said of two or more charges of the same kind connected together.
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (1611) 159 The Field is Ruby, two Wings, Inuerted and conioined Topaz. 1823 Rutter Fonthill p. xxii, Gules, Seven Mascles conjoined, three, three, and one, Or. 1882 Cussans Her. 128 When hollow Charges, such as Annulets, are linked together, so as to form a chain, they are sometimes blazoned as Conjoined; they would be better described as Braced. |
d. Of heavenly bodies: In conjunction.
| 1815 Scott Guy M. iii, Signs and planets, in aspects sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined or opposite. |
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▸ conjoined twin n. each of two individuals born physically joined together, sometimes sharing some of their organs, and sometimes separable by surgery; a Siamese twin; usually in pl.
| 1916 Biol. Bull. 30 211 It is a matter of great importance to ascertain the condition of the function ridges in ‘*conjoined’ twins, that is, twins which have never completely separated, but remain throughout life united by certain parts. 1937 H. H. Newman et al. Twins xiii. 355 Conjoined twins (Siamese twins) show marked differences in height, weight, features, and intelligence. 1959 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 10 84 A wooden carving from the Solomon Islands suggests conjoined twins of the pygopagus type. 2000 Times 5 Sept. i. 3/3 Britain's top team are at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, where 17 pairs of Siamese (or ‘conjoined’) twins have been treated. |