In case you're wondering what Rhinoplasty is, it's a surgical procedure which is usually performed by either an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon, maxillofacial surgeon, or plastic surgeon in order to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose. It is more commonly known as "nose reshaping" or "nose job".
Baby Kamani Hubbard was born with twelve fingers in both his hands and feet. All his fingers look normal that the doctors and nurses didn't noticed. It was only his Dad, who has also an extra finger as a child, who noticed it.
His condition is called Polydactyly. But Baby Kamani Hubbard's case is extremely rare because all his fingers looks normal and functioning properly.
I originally thought that removing and replacing back a prosthetic eye from the eye socket needs an assistance of a doctor. This pretty lady named Monica shows otherwise.
Born on March 7, 1990, Abby and Brittany Hensel of Minnesota, USA are two extraordinary conjoined twins. They have two spines and separate half-sacrums, which converge distally within a slightly broad pelvis. They also have two separate hearts, one in each side of the chest, and each has it’s own set of lungs. They each control and sense their corresponding arm and leg. At birth, they had a third arm but was a useless and so it was removed when they were young.
Abby and Brittany is the only surviving dicephalus twins in the world today. Though they are conjoined, the girls has act independently of each other that when they applied for their driver's license, each one took the test, and passed. But they can also act amazingly as one. They can walk, run, ride a bicycle and a lot more a single person do.
Here's a documentary video of the girls. This was done on their 16th birthday.
In conversation, they are clearly distinct persons, with distinct likes and dislikes. Despite sharing a body, the twins' preferences in food, clothing color, etc. differ. Some of their clothes are altered by their seamstress so that they have two separate necklines in order to emphasize their individuality. They will usually have separate meals, but sometimes will share a single meal for the sake of convenience (e.g., each takes a bite of the same hamburger). Abigail is better at mathematics and Brittany is better at writing.
Here's a video of Sanju Bhagat's Operation to Remove his Parasitic Twin. Sanju carried his twin in his stomach for nearly four decades without even knowing it. It was only during the surgery that the doctors discover what's inside his stomach. I have to warn you that the video contains graphic images.
In the early 21th century, the world was shocked by parasitic twins we heard from the news. Like the Chinese girl, Sanju Bhagat and recently Lakshmi. The 19th and 20th centuries had it's shares also. Here are some of them.
Myrtlye Corbin, born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868.
Jean Libbera, born in 1884 in Rome, Italy.
Francesco A. Lentini, born in 1889 in Siracusa, Sicily.
Ernie Defort, born in Manitoba, Canada on July 7, 1931.
Betty Lou Williams, born on January 10, 1932 in Albany, Georgia.
Now 48 years old, Hang Mioku is said to be a cosmetic surgery addict and has severely disfigured her faced after injecting it with cooking oil. She had her first surgery at 28, mostly to her face. Despite her face so enlarged and disfigured she thinks she's beautiful and still want more but doctors refuse to do so suggesting that her obsession could be a sign of a psychological disorder.
Amazingly, she found a doctor who was willing to give her silicone injects and, what's more, he then gave her a syringe and silicone of her own so she could self-inject.
When her supply of silicone ran out Hang resorted to injecting cooking oil into her face.
Her face became so grotesquely large that she was called "standing fan" by children in her neighbourhood - due to her large face and small body.
At just 2 feet and 5 inches, He Pingping is the world's smallest enable man. He was recognized by the Guinness World record and is included in the record book's 2009 edition. He defeated Lin Yü-chih who holds the title previously.
This Chinese little man who is native of China's Inner Mongolia is now a big celebrity and has become an internet icon because of his size.
A video of He Pingping during his official measurement conducted by the Guinness World record representatives.
If you are tired of 3d tattoo, maybe you wanna try the skinless tattoo. Another tattoo procedure wherein, using a scalpel, your skin is peeled to create the tattoo instead of injecting ink to it. If you have a phobia with needle, this one's for you. :)
A 300 pound tumor from an unnamed 34-year-old woman's abdomen was removed via a 6 hour surgery in Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California on October 1991. It was the world's biggest tumor removed from a human body.
During operation, the woman had to lay on her back because if she lay flat the tumor would crush her abdomen. Doctor had to remove it in one piece because of it being complex. Six hours later, the tumor was successfully remove and later found out that it was benign.
The tumor was a multicystic mass on the right ovary of the woman. The operation was performed by Professor Katherine O'Hanlan of Stanford University Medical Center in California, USA. The tumor had a diameter of 1 meter (3 ft). The patient – who weighed 95 kg (210 lb) after the operation and has made a full recovery – left the operating room on one stretcher and the tumor on another.
If you don't want your energy be wasted in the gym, why not enroll in one of Hong Kong's human-powered gyms. In gyms such as these, the energy burned off your exercisers is diverted and converted to power lighting fixtures, and the excess energy is stored in a battery for later use - when gym users are resting. What a nice motivation to burn fats.
At top of his weight of more than 1,200 lbs, 42-year-old Manuel Uribe from Monterrey, was considered the world's heaviest living man in medical history. He is currently on The Zone diet under supervision of doctors and nutritionist, and is now slowly losing weight. He do exercise on his bed by doing dancing-like motion to speed up his metabolism.
Uribe is beyond the kind of overweight that comes from fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call it morbid obesity.
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity means weighing 20 percent or more than your ideal body weight, and it's a health risk.
Morbid obesity is altogether different. Sometimes called "clinically severe obesity," it means you're 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, with a body mass index of 40 or higher.
Uribe doesn't gain weight like the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain -- or an unhappy combination of all of them -- makes morbid obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine.
Truly the human body is a complex and amazing system. To get you a feel for it, here's a list of some amazing facts about our human body.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
The Wolf People, as circus fans call them, Victor "Larry" and Gabriel "Danny" Ramos Gomez are two of a family of 19 that span five generations all suffering from the rare condition called Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis characterized by excessive facial and bodily hair. Although the women are only covered with a light to medium coat of hair, the men of the family have thick hair on approximately 98% of their body except their hands and feet.
They are known as "The Wolf People" due to a condition known as "Hypertrichosis." These people are truly courageous and awesome.
Vanya Maryin was born with five-chamber heart, instead of four. The "Bee-boy", as doctors call him, have right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle and an extra left atrium. Wondering why he was called the "Bee-boy"? Because only bees have five-chamber heart. What's more extraordinary is that he comes from the beekeeper’s family.
Vanya was born not with 2 atriums like all the people on the Earth, but with an additional - third one. He could die anytime from a sudden push, fright or even happiness. But the body, adjusting to an unusual 5-chamber ‘bee-heart’, suggested the boy a saving, optimal ‘pose for life’.
Doctor Elena Nufer explains: ‘The boy’s heart had 5 chambers instead of 4. Usually the heart consists of the right atrium and the right ventricle, the left atrium and the left ventricle. Vanya had 2 left atriums with a thin, like polyethylene, but firm and impenetrable interseptum. This interseptum was noticed only during the cardiogram. At first nobody believed.
15 years old Indian Girl Jyoti Amge is the world's smallest girl at 1 feet 11 inches according to the Indian Book of Records. She weighs just 11 pounds. Her condition is due to a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia.
I am proud of being small. I love the attention I get," she told the Sunday Mirror. "I'm just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don't feel any different." Jyoti attends her local high school, in Nagpur, India, where she studies alongside classmates of her own age, though she sits at a specially made miniature desk.
A collagen injection known as G-Shot, is now available for women who wants to increase sexual satisfaction. Given under local anaesthetic, a specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot. This procedure takes about half an hour and is designed to enhance women's pleasure around the G-spot which lasts around four months.
The £800 jab temporarily enlarges the G-spot to the size of a 10p in width and a quarter of an inch in height. This makes the G-spot easier to locate and highly sensitive, which it is claimed could enhance sexual arousal and gratification. The UK Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Centre in London's Harley Street says it is the first in the UK to offer the jab.
Christopher Wall is the world's longest living person with heart outside his body. He was born in 1975 and now living in Philadelphia. His rare condition is called ectopia cordis.
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