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Definition of Quintuplets
1. quintuplet [n] - See also: quintuplet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quintuplets
Literary usage of Quintuplets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"Quintuplets are quite rare, and the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's
Library, USA, gives only 19 cases, reports of a few of which will be given here ..."
2. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"Near the junction there's a visitors center and the Dionne Quintuplets Museum
... Apart from the Dionne Quintuplets, the main attractions of North Bay line ..."
3. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"An instance of quintuplets I have once witnessed. In the Prussian statistics of
Von Hemsbach and Veit based upon thirteen million births, the number of twin ..."
4. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1893)
"An instance of quintuplets I have once witnessed. In the Prussian statistics of
Von Hemsbach and Veit based upon thirteen million births, the number of twin ..."
5. The Influence of a Magnetic Field Upon the Spark Spectra of Iron and Titanium by Arthur Scott King (1912)
"Quintuplets. The quintuplet appears least often of any of the less complex types.
As a rule this separation gives three n- and two /»-components, ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"The operation was by suprapubic hysterectomy. The patient was doing well.
Quintuplets DR. ... if there was but one placenta in the case of the quintuplets, ..."