{"id":30131,"date":"2025-02-15T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30131"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:45:06","slug":"foetus-in-foetu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/foetus-in-foetu\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetus in Foetu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Foetus in Foetu Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, doctors at the Buldhana District Women\u2019s Hospital in Maharashtra detected a rare case of \u201cfoetus in foetu\u201d in a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<h2>About Foetus in Foetu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0It is a rare <strong>congenital disorder<\/strong> which is also known as <strong>cryptodidymus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a foetus-like mass <strong>developed within the body of the other foetus<\/strong> in a monozygotic twin pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li>Basically, one twin is very underdeveloped and enwrapped inside the body of the other twin, so much so that the pregnancy is considered a singleton pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li>The presence of a twin inside the body of the other <strong>twin may go undetected for years<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This condition occurs when a malformed foetus develops inside another foetus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It affects about <strong>one in 500,000 births<\/strong>. Less than 200 cases have been reported worldwide, with about 10 to 15 cases in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Causes of Foetus in Foetu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The exact cause of this condition <strong>is not fully understood<\/strong>, but it\u2019s believed to result from an <strong>anomaly during the development of monozygotic<\/strong> or identical twins.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>About 10 to 15 days after the conception of monozygotic twins, the cell mass of the embryo may be split unevenly, due to which one twin is smaller and incompletely formed with the other twin fully developed.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The smaller twin gets trapped within the larger twin. The trapped twin is <strong>considered \u201cparasitic,\u201d<\/strong> as it draws its blood supply and nutrients from the other <strong>\u201chost\u201d twin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>trapped or \u201cparasitic twin\u201d<\/strong> has some morphologic features of a normal foetus such as an umbilical cord-like structure, a bag of membranes surrounding it, and blood vessel connections to the host twin. It may have a vertebral column, limbs, and a few organs but lacks vital organs like the brain, heart or gut. Despite having \u201cliving tissue,\u201d the parasitic twin has no prospects of independent existence outside the host twin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The presence of the parasitic twin <strong>affects the health of the host twin<\/strong>, who has to \u201cfeed\u201d the former from the nutrients received over a single umbilical cord. In addition, enlargement of the trapped parasitic twin may compress vital organs in the host and cause discomfort or life-threatening complications.<\/li>\n<li>Generally, the <strong>parasitic twin is found<\/strong> in the <strong>abdomen of the host twin<\/strong>. Rarely, it may be found in other organs like the brain or chest.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Foetus in Foetu FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is a Fetus in Fetu in the uterus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is a rare congenital anomaly in which a malformed fetus grows within the body of its twin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What is called a foetus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> An unborn offspring that develops and grows inside the uterus (womb) of humans and other mammals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is meant by congenital disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Congenital disorders can be defined as structural or functional anomalies that occur during intrauterine life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/fetus-in-fetu-a-twin-mystery\/article69209604.ece#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foetus in Foetu, also called cryptodidymus, is a rare congenital disorder where a malformed fetus is found within its twin, often mistaken for a tumor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}