What is "dipygus"

The dipygus deformity is a severe congenital deformity where the body axis forks left and right partway along the torso with the posterior end ( pelvis and legs) duplicated. Myrtle Corbin was a dipygus; she married and had 5 children. In human cases the inner two of the four hindquarters develop much smaller than normal. This is a type of "teras catadidymum" (" monster twinned below").

Another sort of deformity with extra legs can happen from a degenerated conjoined twin, as may have happened with Frank Lentini with his third leg.