Superfoetation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Superfoetation \Su`per*foe*ta"tion\, n.
     Superfetation.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  SUPERFOETATION, med. jur. The conception of a second embryo, during the 
  gestation of the first, or the conception of a child by a woman already 
  pregnant with another, during the time of such pregnancy. 
       2. This doctrine, though doubted, seems to be established by numerous 
  cases. Beck's Med. Jur. 193; Cassan on Superfoetation; New York Medical 
  Repository; 1 Briand, Med. Leg. prem. partie, c. 3, art. 4; 1 Fodere, Med. 
  Leg. Sec. 299; Buffon, Hist. Nat. de l'Homme, Puberte.