28 Medical Pics That Prove The Body Keeps The Score, And Sometimes It’s Absolutely Terrifying

My scar from surgery doesn't get dirty at work. Deep wounds don't regenerate sweat glands, and dirt sticks to sweat!

Internal Decapitation

In an unusual surgery, doctors in Bengaluru removed a bulging growth from a woman's head that resembled a "sack of marbles."

The medical term for these globules is dermoid cysts. They are essentially tissue spheres that form from embryonic cells and may contain "hair, teeth, or nerves."

These globules can appear anywhere on the body, including one's ovaries and various areas of the head and neck.

Dermoid cysts are often harmless, but they don't resolve on their own and need to be removed surgically.

Foot binding (also known as Lotus foot) was the custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape and size of their feet

It was practised in China from the Song dynasty until the early 20th century, and bound feet were considered a status symbol as well as a mark of beauty

Foot binding limited the mobility of women, and resulted in lifelong disabilities for most of its subjects, although some women with bound feet working outdoors have also been reported

A dodgeball injury that resulted in radius and ulnar shaft fracture, aka broken forearm!
This sustained dodgeball injury has led to a bilateral diaphyseal fracture involving both the radius and ulnar shaft, thereby presenting as a fracture of the forearm.
This particular injury entails the disruptive discontinuity of the long bones situated within the antebrachial region, namely the radius and ulnar diaphyses.

28 years of sun exposure made the left side of a truck driver's face look 20 years older.

A 15-year-old boy has three extra vertebrae in his neck - a condition known as supernumerary vertebra along with congenital scoliosis - causing pain, stress on his nerves, and making it difficult for him to walk.

Raynauds syndrome

Stepped on Catfish

Allergy testing went great, turns out I'm allergic to "all of the above"

Patient with end stage kidney disease showed this during physical examination of the arm.

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

A woman wearing a special mask for fighting depression, Budapest, 1937.

Ilizarov Apparatus

Plain radiograph of wrist joint shows polydactyly with duplication of ulna, duplication of ulnar side of carpal bones, metacarpals and phalanges, absence of radius and absence of thumb. Eight triphalangeal digits are seen. The middle phalanx of medial index finger is hypoplastic

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