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heterocephalus

 [het″er-o-sef´ah-lus]
a malformed fetus with two heads of unequal size.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

het·er·o·ceph·a·lus

(het'ĕr-ō-sef'ă-lŭs),
Conjoined twins with heads of unequal size. See: conjoined twins.
[hetero- + G. kephalē, head]
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References in periodicals archive
Some species, such as the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber; Reeve et al.
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Naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber, are African rodents that attract attention by being the only eusocial mammals, but defy study by their entirely fossorial life style (Jarvis et al 1994).
Integrating molecular techniques with field methods in studies of social behavior: a revolution results
Naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) live in a "hive" society with one reproducing queen and between one and three reproducing males.
'Straight-line evolution' causing naked mole rat sperms to deteriorate
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