Showing posts with label anatomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anatomy. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2015

Noseless newborn

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Before Eli Thompson was born in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., his father joked that he hoped he wouldn't pass on his nose to his new son. Lit...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Flaying frogs

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It was in 1987 that a lawsuit brought by 15-year-old Jenifer Graham of Victorville, California, U.S., resulted in several states offering ...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Dentures from the dead

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To meet the 19th c. European demand for dentures, the mouths of men killed in battle were plundered for their teeth. The human teeth were ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Fetuses in fetu

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Fetus in fetu is a developmental abnormality in which a mass resembling a fetus ( IMAGE ABOVE ) develops within the body. According to o...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

His hysterectomy

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A 37-year-old businessman from Lancashire, U.K., has been discovered to have a fully functioning womb . An MRI scan performed because he ...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Not-so-gross anatomy

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General Electric has developed and field-tested a new, superfast scanner called Revolution CT at Florida's West Kendall Baptist Hospi...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Cortex context

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Resident pathologist Coleman de Chenar began amassing a collection of brains in the 1950s at what was then called the Texas State Lunatic ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Thymus time

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have grown from scratch, for the first time, a whole functional organ inside an animal. The or...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Lord of Patients

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In the church of San Bartolo Cuautlalpan in Zumpango, Mexico, stands a somewhat frightening, life-size, 300-year-old sculpture known as t ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Ben's bones

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The title of this post does not refer to the bones of American statesman Benjamin Franklin ( he died and was buried in Philadelphia ), bu...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Visibility of vermin

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In a technique that removes lipids, which make tissue opaque, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have succeeded in rende...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Bulbous baldness

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I have been waiting years for the opportunity to blog about this! I learned decades ago that some people cure their baldness by having a b...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

In a twist

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In a case that merited mention in The New England Journal of Medicine , a 48-year-old Italian man sustained some major injuries in a motor...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Period poop

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When an urban renewal project in Namur, Belgium, unearthed latrines dating back to the 14th c. beneath the city square, researchers jumped...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Imperfection

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" For if a man be placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centered at his navel, the finge...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Seeing stars

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After an on-the-job accident, a 42-year-old male electrician developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes . Unfortunately, the 14,000-volt ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Long lost ligament

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In 1879, a French surgeon postulated that an additional ligament existed on the anterior of the human knee. Only now, after a broad cadave...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Water on the brain

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On the cover of Rosamond Purcell's incredible book Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters , is her photograph of th...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Phocomelia phantom

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Perhaps the most famous example of a person born with phocomelia is Mignon the Penguin Girl , who toured in circus sideshows in the early...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Medieval medical mummy

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You are looking at the head and shoulders of a human preparation from the back. The top of the skull and the brain have been removed. ...