Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly (Greek: “πολύ”) meaning “many” and kephalē (Greek: “κεφάλη”) meaning “head”. A polycephalic organism may be thought of as one being with a supernumerary body part, or as two or more beings with a shared body.
Two-headed animals (called bicephalic or dicephalic) and three-headed (tricephalic) animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world, and form by the same process as conjoined twins from monozygotic twin embryos.
