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“The Eyes After Death”: 50 Of The Most Bizarrely Fascinating Photos Shared By Medical Professionals (New Pics)
Have you ever seen a close-up of someone's eyes after death? How about the aftermath of a C-section that a woman performed on herself? These might sound like scenes from a horror movie or medical drama, but they're not.
Below, you'll find receipts of true medical cases and procedures shared by those who work in the field. These photographs aren’t your average flu cases or sprained ankles. They're the eye-opening jaw-droppers, and the “wow” moments that left even some doctors, nurses and students stunned.
There's an online community made up of medical professionals from around the globe, and some curious onlookers. The page is called r/MEDizzy and has more than 372,000 members, all there to discuss amazing medical cases, watch useful medical videos and share inspiring pictures.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best - and most bizarre - posts from the community. Some are gory, others are fascinating, a few are simply factual. All prove that the human body truly is an incredible sight to behold. We also explain why so many people love watching medical dramas. You'll find that info between the pics.
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#1
Before And After Orthognathic Surgery
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#2
Before And After Surgery For Blount's Disease
#3
Before And After Of An Extensive Maxillofacial Surgery
The Majestic Opossum 1 year ago
It is interesting to me that cleft pallet is so much more common in certain parts of the world. Not saying that is the case with this example, but bless the physicians who donate their time and skill to help correct this and give so many a second chance at life.
#5
This Woman Performed A C-Section On Herself After Struggling During Labor And Not Having Access To Immediate Medical Care. Both She And The Baby Lived!
#6
Dr. Virginia Apgar. The Inventor Of Newborn's 'Apgar Score' That Is Saving Millions Of Babies Everyday
#7
The Difference After Jaw Surgery And Rhinoplasty Made On This Woman
#8
13 Vertebral Bodies Taken From An Organ Donor To Be Used For Bone Marrow
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We are just meat.
#9
Well Done Nose Prosthetic
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
When I worked in MRI there's a guy that had lost his nose because of cancer. You could see into his sinus cavities & he usually had a gause pad taped over it.
#10
Perfectly Lined Up Sternotomy Sealing, The Surgeon Is Amazing
#11
Lightning Strike Causes Patterned Charring Along The Contact Points Of A Metallic Locket!
#12
This 3D CT Scan Shows Multiple Fractures As The Result Of A Motorcycle Accident At High Speed
Ace 1 year ago
Ouch. I came close, hitting the armco barrier backwards and upside down at high speed. Thankfully, at least in part due to the back protection built in to my jacket, the vertebrae shattered but did not move, all the ribs were broken, but at the front, showing how the impact had been transferred away from the spine by said protection. I haven't ridden a motorcycle since, now nearly 20 years ago, scan0002-6...89e800.jpg 
#13
Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma is a malignant tumors which begins in the bone forming cells. It typically occurs in young patients with 75% taking place before the age of 20 as the growth centers of the bone are more active during puberty.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I've seen scans from MRI and Nuclear Medicine of Osteosarcoma and they are scary. Several of them ended up as amputation and either radiation treatments or chemo.
#14
Patient Got Bit By A Stray Dog, And This Is His Rabies Vaccine And Immune Globulin Set Up
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I actually have to schedule them sometimes for people. You have to go to the ER for the 1st shot and for the bite or scratch to be cleaned. The rest of the shots are scheduled in 1 of our Urgent Cares and everybody says they are very painful.
#15
Gouty Arthritis
#16
CT Scan Of A 13 Year Old From Gaza
#17
Blood From 5 Y/O With Nephrotic Syndrome
#19
Patient Came In For Tooth Pain (Does Not Have Teeth)
55yo female came in for emergency dental visit. After ruling out any dental related issue, the doctor expressed concerns about the (softball size) mass on the right side of her face.
Impaired vision in right eye, obstructed nasal airway, impaired speech and ability to eat.
Patient claims the mass formed only 2 months ago but showed an image of it a bit smaller dated last year. Says when it bothers her she gets antibiotic/steroid and it goes down a little.
Immediate referral to ENT.
#20
The Eyes After Death
After death, there is are no pupillary reflexes to light. The cornea of the deceased becomes cloudy after two hours of death. Besides that, the pressure in the eyes start to decrease and the eyeballs become flaccid before it they sink into the orbits of the eyes.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
The black/red lines are what is called "Tache noire". It develops on the eye literally at the seam of the eyelids where the eyes are exposed to air, if the eyes are not completely closed post-mortem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tache_noir_de_la_sclerotique
#21
A 66-Year-Old Man “Accidentally” Fell On A Matryoshka Doll This Last Christmas Eve Night In Rome
#22
Heavy Calculus Removal
#23
Just Got Out Of My Latest Surgery. Hoping I Can Now Breathe Without Tubes. Also, Chin Evened Out Using Fat From My Stomach
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
From OP on Reddit: "It’s a sad story, I had my dog for 10 years from a puppy, Id had multiple seizures around him and he’d always been there kind of watching over me as I came round. For some reason this time he obviously got really scared and in trying to bring me round or whatever, this damage was done. One of my biggest fears was that he’d be put down but fortunately he was rehomed by a retired couple who love him to bits, but he was my best friend and I miss him every day."
#24
These Are Mulberry Molars, Which Are Associated With Congenital Syphilis
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
These are Hutchinson's teeth, a sign of congenital syphilis. Mulberry molars are also a sign of congenital syphilis, but these are incisors XD
#25
Bungee Cord To The Eye Caused Man's Iris To Collapse Into Multiple Deformed Pupils
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Luckily the patient was able to have surgery that helped repair some of the damage and restore some of their vision! https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/health/collapsed-iris-case-study/index.html
#26
Nerve That Was Extracted During My Root Canal This Morning
#28
A Man In Peru Experienced An Unusual Swelling, Resembling A Balloon, Following A Fishing Accident
After a deep-sea diving expedition for shellfish, he had to quickly resurface due to the propeller of a large commercial vessel severing his compressed air supply.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
So, a more coherent explanation is that he was deep-sea diving. A vessel's propeller struck his air supply line, requiring him to surface immediately and rapidly. When you have dived down to depth, you CAN NOT safely come to the surface "quickly" without risking (at the least) decompression sickness and (at worst) death, due to the dissolved nitrogen in the blood that comes from breathing the gas mixture that divers must breathe at depth (it's not "air", it's a nitrogen-oxygen mixture, or sometimes a tri-mix with helium.) The fastest safe "ascent" should be 10m/33ft per minute, for any dives deeper than 6m/20ft. Obviously if your air supply hose gets hit, you can't slowly ascend over several minutes and must make an emergency ascent. We can see the result an emergency ascent had on this man's body here :(
#29
The Patient Was Trying To Get A Pencil Out Of Her Purse Then She Tripped On A Sidewalk Resulting In This Photo
#30
PE Removal With New Procedure. Here’s What They Sucked Out Of My Lungs Via My Groin Last Week
#31
Laser Tattoo Removal Gone Wrong!
#32
Knee Aspiration Following Acute Gout Flareup
Patient presented to clinic approximately 3 days into a flareup of gout. 55 ccs of fluid were pulled off and uric acid crystals could be seen in the aspirate. For context, synovial fluid is normally transparent and yellow.
chunky hoey 1 year ago
My late mum had bouts of gouts on her bunion foot.....was very painful for her. She also had arthritis too.
#33
Giant Scalp Arteriovenous Malformation
Scalp arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare congenital disorder. It is an abnormal connection between a feeding artery and draining veins. Patients are usually diagnosed during late childhood to early adulthood.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Untreated AVMs in the scalp can cause heart failure due to these malformed veins causing a reduce in backflow in the vascular system. They can also rupture and cause bleeding and potentially even death if the bleed is bad enough. Fortunately, many scalp ones can be treated, either by surgical removal or with other methods such as endovascular embolization.
#34
My Broken Femur And The Repair
#35
A Chest X-Ray In 1914
#36
Penetrating Branch Root Injury In A Motorcycle Enduro Rider!
During an off-road motorcycle enduro race, the individual faced a difficult part of the track covered in dense plants and branches hanging overhead.
#37
Extremely Pruned Fingers After Picking Mangos Without Gloves
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
So here's a crazy thing: mangoes belong to the same family as cashews... and poison ivy, poison oak, and sumac (Anacardiaceae.) Many of these plants contain urushiol, an oil that causes contact dermatitis when the plant is touched. So, basically, picking mangoes without gloves can have the same physiological effects as touching poison ivy or poison oak.
#38
Blue Blood. An Incredibly Rare Condition Known As Acquired Methemoglobinemia
#39
The Human Body Stripped Of Fat, Muscle And Bone Tissue, With Just The Vasculature Preserved And Exposed In A Process Of Plastination!!
#40
Tight Situation! Boa Constrictor In The Emergency Room
Fire Singer 1 year ago
Ok so not saying I would know what else to do, but I don't know that my first thought would be to go to an emergency room for this just because I wouldn't think the staff would be trained for it. I'd maybe try animal control first, followed by ER if I needed it for my hand. Could just be me though!
#41
Spontaneous Hyphema
#42
Severe Frostbite In Extreme Altitude Climber (Mt. Everest)
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Yeah, and if you die up there, they leave your corpse there. It's actually too expensive and risky to the lives of others, even the professionals, to bring your body down from Everest.
#43
Organic Solvent Chemical Burns
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
More information: "A 33-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with chemical burns on his hands from handling paint thinner without using gloves. He had approximately 7 h of direct contact of Klean-Strip® (W.M. Barr & Company, Memphis, TN) on his bilateral hands. Klean-Strip is comprised primarily of Stoddard solvent, a petroleum-derived mixture of organic hydrocarbons. The patient reported severe burning pain throughout his palms and fingers. The palmar aspects of his hands were discolored and waxy, with a leather-like texture, particularly at his distal fingertips. Burns with organic solvents such as hydrocarbons cause a corrosive dissolution of lipids, unlike thermal burns, which cause local tissue denaturation and release of local inflammatory mediators due to an exothermic reaction."
#44
My Xl Wrist Vein
#45
Docs Couldn’t Find A Single Vein In My Arms For IV, So They Struck My Jugular
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
OUCH! Let them know you're a hard stick and to call the IV team. They also have this little ultrasound thing that makes the veins look bright green. That's how I found out last year that I have a lot of valves in my arms when I went for a hand surgery last year
#46
Wife Said My Feet “Barely Look Human”
Robin Roper 1 year ago
In our family, we call these rice paddy feet; my husband is Japanese and has really wide feet.
#47
Wrinkly, Brittle Nails
#48
Thigh Slices From A Morbidly Obese Person And A Slightly Obese Person
#49
Nail Biting All My Life
#50
Best Friend’s Dad’s Arm After Boxing Injury
Ace 1 year ago
Looks like a haematoma some time, possibly weeks, after injury. Trapped blood in the muscle take a long time to drain through body tissues. Had similar myself. Learned after the first one that I really should have had medical treatment to drain the lump on my hip, as the blood can sometime turn gangrenous; would also have removed swelling and healed much more quickly.
#51
A 26-Year-Old Female Presented To The Emergency Department After Accidentally Swallowing A Toothbrush, Which She Had Inserted Into Her Mouth To Induce Vomiting
She reports a 6-month history of bulimia nervosa. The toothbrush was successfully retrieved via upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Unfortunately it's taken some lining with it, and this young lady is going to have the sore throat from h*ll.
#52
An MRI View You Won’t See Every Day
#53
Onychogryphosis Is A Nail Disorder That Affects The Growth Of The Nail Plate
The nail undergoes thickening, elongation and increased curvature and has an unusual yellow-brown, opaque appearance resembling a ram's horn.
#54
Attempted S**cide With A Small Crossbow. Patient Survived But Lost An Eye. The Arrow Apparently Didn't Penetrate The Posterior Orbital Wall Thus Not Reaching The Brain
#55
Petechiae Due To Low Platelets In 28 Y/O Leukemia Patient
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Good news: OPs is now cancer-free! https://www.reddit.com/r/BeforeandAfter/comments/1l4znd1/cancer_no_cancer_4_months_between_pics/
#56
Nails Coming Off After Hfmd
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K. LNU 1 year ago
Did you see the one where the soldier was chewing on a blasting cap? So many safety briefings after that came out.
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Did you see the one where the soldier was chewing on a blasting cap? So many safety briefings after that came out.
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