Q: What is each type of multiple birth called?
A: The following list gives the type of multiple birth by number of babies involved in the pregnancy:
1 singleton
2 twins
3 triplets
4 quadruplets
5 quintuplets
6 sextuplets
7 septuplets
8 octuplets
9 nonuplets
10 decaplets
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