studying

(procrastinating) anatomy and physiology

[bigthymus]

does everyone know that the brown stuff falling off the walls in arnold's last cavity right before they turn around was poop? i feel like not everyone knows that

[nemfrog]

Original illustrations of the mammalian eye by George Lindsay Johnson and Arthur William Head. 1901

Different bear eyes painted in watercolor by a scientist.

Internet Archive

[foxspur-deactivated20150809]

a preserved human heart in a leaden case, discovered in the medieval crypt of a church in Cork, Ireland and collected by General Pitt Rivers in the 1860s

[bigthymus]

so the exact same week i relinquish my health benefits job (because fuck them), i randomly got a letter in the mail saying i got approved for the state medicare i applied for 4 years ago. which is a huge relief because to join a medical education program at this school you need proof of health insurance, which is near impossible to acquire unless you're a dependent or working full time at a place which offers it? and the school doesn't offer any either. like idk why they just hate people who who aren't in their early 20s or married. anyway i was just planning to get the cheapest bullshit temporary plan (like UHC) just for appearances but this is much better!

[butchyena]

dude.

[falseficus]

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

[brownheadedcowbird]

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

[ryannorth]

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

[dandelion-stuff-and-fluff]

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

[brightlotusmoon]

....duuude.

[naamahdarling]

Spleens Georg

[stele3]

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

[cactusspatz]

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

[headspace-hotel]

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This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.

[zegalba]

Méret Oppenheim 1985 Gloves

[angelnumber27]

[angelnumber27]

My machine is broken any of y’all mechanics

[inlovewiththemooon]

splayed and spilling out

fleshed out, and with my angel version

[nemfrog]

"In accordance with the latest theory...it is thought that we actually 'see' by electrical means." The Electrical experimenter. July 1920.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Plate 3. Positive phase of electric energy. A System of Instruction in X-Ray Methods and  Medical Uses of Light, Hot-Air, Vibration and High-Frequency Currents. 1902.

[bigthymus]

who got to decide to create the definition for the letters "os" as uterine anatomical parts? rather than like a conjunction or something that we use daily, like its siblings "is" "as" or "us." there are so common daily words that could have used it instead. "os" had so much power and potential. rip

[nemfrog]

Endpaper. 1785.

Source

[kuutamosonaatti]

Sonja Bäumel, Crocheted Membrane (2008/09)

[ancient-hoe]

Androgynous, by Takato Yamamoto, 2008.

[bigthymus]

[myxomycota]

slime mold plasmodium by kataoka5233

[nemfrog]

Superficial lymphatic system of the human body. Medical education poster, detail. 1956.

Wellcome Collection.