One might think that after having seen hundreds of bodies, nothing would surprise people who make autopsies to live – but sometimes, even they remained amazed. Recently, U / Atro_bella request“People who make autopsies, what was the strangest / most unique anomaly that you have found?” And the answers did not disappoint. Malted organs and mysteries tumors to bodies with missing brains (yes, really), these professionals have shared the wildest and strangest things they discovered on the table:
1 and 1“I made autopsies for almost a decade. The most unique thing I have seen was the uterine didelphys with a seventy vagina. Basically, the vagina separated in two and I went into two separate passes and two distinct uterine cavities. The two parts of the uterus fused into a heart -shaped body.”
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“I only saw that once.”
2“Inverted situs. Basically, all the organs were in anatomical positions in mirror from which they should normally be. So, so cool.”
3 and 3“During a previous career, I was an agent of the American army CID. For each investigation into death that required an autopsy, we had to send an agent to photograph and observe for the file. Maybe 90 days to live at the time of his death.”
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“The woman went to prison for murder, and all she had to do was wait a few months and she would have been a widow of army heroes.”
4“An old woman with an incredibly thick skull all around. Her brain was much, much smaller than it should have been, but according to her family, she was fully functional and has not shown any deficit of any kind. She actually directed her own cheese manufacturing business and died of a carbon monoxide leak.”
“The strangest box that I have ever seen!”
5“I was doing an autopsy on an elderly patient with a heart valve disease and I found a 3 cm white plastic disc door one of the renal arteries. It was identical to the disc of the mechanical aortic valve of the patient's tilting valve type, which was in place, intact and operating normally. We had no explanation to explain why an additional valve disc was present far from the heart. An in -depth examination of the patient's surgical history revealed that several years earlier, during the installation of the aortic valve, the valve cage broke during the installation. The disc had avoided in the aorta and could not be recovered. The surgeon immediately removed the broken cage, replaced the entire device with another valve and finished surgery. “”
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“We did not find any evidence of a later investigation to determine where the component of the lost valve is. So, for years – apparently unknown of most of his guards and perhaps even for the patient – he had a heart valve disc housed in his renal artery ostium. It was not obstructed and stable, and was discovered as an accidental discovery during the autopsie.”
6.“I had an autopsy of a young child, about 10 years old, who had hydrocephalus And was quadriplegic, but kept some of his normal functions, such as speaking and understanding – although at least. When I opened his skull, there was no brain. I was shocked. It was the first time that I have witnessed something like that. There were about 1.5 liters of liquid and just an empty skull. The brain was so severely atrophied that it was smaller than a golf ball. “”
“Incredible how he survived until the age of 10!”
7“My mother-in-law is a funeral director / embalmed and had a deceased person with a 6-inch tail just below her spinal cord.”
8“An accessory span, attached to the intestines.”
9.“As part of the anatomy of the school, we made an excursion in a local college to work with bodies given to science. They had a sign:” If you cannot find it, they do not have one. “A nearby body lacked part of the digestive tract (I forget what – annex?).
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“Another body was a dead biker and a big drinker. His body was adjusted, however. His liver was seriously twice someone else's size – perhaps more – and stretched throughout his chest. This liver was a beast.”
10“At the school of medicine, I attended an autopsy where the patient had a fistula (connection) between his Aortic artery and his esophagus. He bleed to death in this way. Scary to think. “”
11“I observed a lot during my professional autopsies. The most notorious was a guy with four 0.22 bullets in his skull. He did not claim pain and apparently lived a normal life. His daughter told me that he was a member of a gang when he was young. He died of a heart arrest at 60.”
12“An iron rein on horseback – the two kidneys were merged at the lower ends. Another person had a missing pulmonary lobe, therefore two lobes on each side instead of two and three, and no sign of surgery.”
13“I am a funeral director and built an old woman who was still hot – she had died about an hour before. I could not have at all drainage, but I had the drainage tube in his vein, I opened myself, and the embalming liquid pushed through. He didn't make sense. I started to root in his vein and I saw a coagulation, and it was used to draw an assignment that looked like a branch of trees. ships.
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“She was a great embalming.”
14“My aunt, who worked as a pathologist, told me about the time when she made an autopsy on a newborn baby who was born apparently in good health but could not eat and then died. The baby esophagus was not linked to the stomach – he was linked to the trachea and the lungs instead. And the lungs were full of milk.”
15“In 1990, I finished a group autopsy in an advanced class of human anatomy. An 85 -year -old patient had a tumor in her brain. It was the size of a golf ball on her right lobe – unknown to death.
“The things you find. The body is a wonder.”
16“I am not a regular autopsy artist, but I do a lot with forensic archeology (mainly natural mummies now) and I had to take an A&P course which involved a corpse dissection. A patient died at 102 natural causes. We found that the articulation of her left elbow had been replaced by the legitimate oriental Europe. available. “
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“It was absolutely incredible.”
17“A huge accumulation of pus pericarditis which was 500 ml of volume and bright green. Intestines which had herniated in the testicles of a man. The iron reins on horseback-I saw this twice in my 10 year old mortuary career. I saw a lot of rats accessories, which are very cute. I have so many other cool things, but they ranked there.”
“Oh, I just wanted to add that the Saute Asticots are one thing. Funny time!”
Obviously, the bodies are bizarre and interesting – and sometimes downright incredible. Did any of these elements set you off? Or do you have a wild medical story or something strange that you have seen from the first hand to share? Place your thoughts in the comments below.
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