Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?
this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)
Reblog to change someone's perception
also important to note— the fallopian tubes arent like. "attached" to the ovaries. they kinda just hang out nearby to grab an egg that ruptures from the ovary
yes, you heard that right— ruptures. theres a reason many people experience cramps and pains outside of menstruation, and thats because ovulation itself involves an egg busting through the ovary wall like the koolaid man
also, really cool fun fact: if a person is missing a fallopian tube on one side and an egg appears there, the fallopian tube from the other side will reach over and try to get it to compensate for the missing one
