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Edward Mordake, a disputed story of a 19th-century man with a face on the back of his head; Futakuchi-onna, a female Japanese yōkai with mouth on back of her head/hair; Janus, a Roman god with two faces; Kara Mia, a Philippine TV series that tells the story of a young woman with two faces divided in one body. Polycephaly
Dicephalus means two-headed. [1] Parapagus means joined side by side. [7] [1] Dicephalic twins are called: dibrachius, if they have two arms altogether (one for each twin), [3] tribrachius, if they have three arms altogether, [8] tetrabrachius, if they have four arms altogether, [7] dipus, if they have two legs altogether (one for each twin). [7]
In humans, there are two forms of twinning that can lead to two heads being supported by a single torso. [3] In dicephalus parapagus dipus, the two heads are side by side. In craniopagus parasiticus, the two heads are joined directly to each other, but only one head has a functional torso. Survival to adulthood is rare, but does occur in some ...
It is the most comprehensive, detailed and thick dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [ citation needed ] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu ...
This is a list of English-language words of Hindi and Urdu origin, two distinguished registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu). Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin.
Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled Mordrake) is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was born in the 19th century as the heir to an English peerage with a face at the back of his head. [1] According to legend, the face could whisper, laugh or cry. Mordake repeatedly begged doctors to remove it, claiming it whispered bad things to him at ...
Urdu is the sole national, and one of the two official languages of Pakistan (along with English). [107] It is spoken and understood throughout the country, whereas the state-by-state languages (languages spoken throughout various regions) are the provincial languages, although only 7.57% of Pakistanis speak Urdu as their first language. [166]
The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal-poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate .