Deformities That You Might Have

"Bell-Clapper Deformity" Who ever named this was a genius

both of my kidneys are fused together to make a slightly stronger kidney

"Testicular torsion" is a fun magic spell that you can utter to cause every male in the vicinity to wince in phantom pain.

It’s less of those moms not being angels, and more of FASD being easier to cause. Recent research has shown that it can occur simply by drink during the time period that someone didn’t even know they were pregnant. That’s also why the percentage he gave seems so high, because recent studies have found that it’s much more common than originally thought. It’s also why it’s considered a spectrum disorder because the severity ranges so much.

“Have you ever tried to untangle headphones in a plastic bag? This is like that but sweatier” -only way doctors are allowed to describe that condition now.

My grandma knew a guy who ruptured his spleen in highschool when he was in surgery they found out he had four fully functional spleens

My partner has an accessory spleen, and she had a Splenectomy to remove the original spleen, and then she grew a whole new spleen from the accessory spleen. Which is my favorite thing ever.

I have a 60 year old coworker and she has all her organs on the opposite side, at least 5 small spleens (not accessory spleens, just a bunch of slightly smaller spleens), and was born with an extra finger on each hands and showed me the surgery scars where they were before they were removed. she's a goddamn miracle of science and I love her...cool af

Imagine the poor guy that has all of these at once.

“I’m a doctor, not a cosmetologist” This joke is under-appreciated

Was a kid at my school I didn’t like, not even a bully, just vain and uncaring for others. I pointed her out to my mom during a school picnic. Mom glances at her, states “fetal alcohol syndrome” and goes back for another bite of burger. That’s how I learned the facial features of it.

I dislocated my shoulder a few years back. They did an MRI at a later date to determine damage to the soft tissues and found that I had something called a “Buford Complex”. Basically, the tendon structure is different. It was described to me as a sort of “variant anatomy”. Thought that was interesting.

*looks in the mirror* Now that’s a huge deformity

I had a girl in my health/gym class who seemingly proudly yelled “I have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome!” and that has stuck with me for some time now

Aberrant obturator arteries are another favorite of mine. It's basically where one of the arteries in your pelvis branches off of a place it doesn't normally branch off of. Doesn't cause any issues and you'd never know you had one unless you had surgery on the area. A couple of the cadavers in my anatomy lab back in med school had them so it ended up being a bonus question on our practical exam. Situs inversus is also a fun one. I took care of an 8 year old boy that had it once. The first time his mom brought him to the doctor, they took a chest x-ray and everything was backwards, so the x-ray tech assumed she had made some kind of error and just went into the x-ray software and flipped the image horizontally to correct the "error". This may sound stupid, but it isn't when you consider that the statistical likelihood of making an error like that is actually much higher than the likelihood of having a patient with situs inversus. So the kid walked out of the doctor's office still without ever having any idea that all his organs were backwards, lol.

Fun fact: this video is where I learned about the Bell Clapper Deformity 2nd fun fact: This video is also how I learned I have the Bell Clapper Deformity

I have a deformity in my hips where they always lie. Didnt know until I saw Shakira's,

“Hey, you ever try to untangle a pair of headphones through a plastic bag?” Is one HELL of a way to explain testicular torsion

I have Type 1 Syndactyly, or webbing between my ring and index fingers up to the first knuckle. In laments terms, my hand looks ~5% more mitten-like than a normal hand. How this happened is the more interesting part. Everyone has webbing between all of their fingers and toes during development in the womb. At some point during development, these extra cells decide they'd rather just fukin explode, so they do in a process called Apoptosis. The cells that form the webbing on my hands basically decided that never letting me comfortably wear a glove was worth living for.

My deformity is a missing right lung while I was in my mother's womb. It wasn't removed through surgery– the bronchi is small but it's there, in my right. My heart's moved a bit more to the right as well, and every time I carry a shoulder bag, I sling it over my right shoulder and don't feel exhausted at all LOL Though there's more downsides, I'm alright