Scientific Illustration

bodyandlight:

Vintage Chinese poster

victoriasrustyknickers:

The American Phrenological Journal - Know Thyself - Volume 10 1848.

via Wikipedia

tranzfat:

this is probably what my “surgery” entailed. This is basically what the medical records describe. Essentially what happens is they cut you open from wherever your urethra is all the way up, cutting into the end of your cliterophallus, constructing and artificial urethra that ends ‘higher’ up, and then sew back up any “opening that wasn’t suppose to be there” at the end of the procedure, along with the giant cit they made down the middle of you.

All of this is completely unnecessary mind you, and is explained away as a “correction” and intended to “help you stand up to pee.” Just in case anyone want to know, I’ve never really been able to stand up to pee, and don’t mind it a bit, but it makes me wonder why the hell they performed this failure of a ‘surgery,’ and removed healthy, sensitive tissue from my body, leaving behind scars and traumatic memories. Oh yeah, I was four when it happened, so I can remember it :)

Some people with hypospadias are administer hormones as babies to make their bodies grow in a ‘more masculine direction.’ Others go through different types of surgery, some of which I have posted in the past. I don’t have all of the information, my medical records were not well keep, and my family won’t speak to me, about this or anything else, so I’m still searching for all of the answers.

decaturjim:

Explore The Human Microbiome

The human microbiome refers to all of the microbial organisms that reside in the body including bacteria, fungi, and archaea.  Notably, the human body contains over 10 times more microbial cells than human cells.

To illustrate the diversity of these ‘body bugs’, Scientific American have profiled this impressive, interactive map of the key microorganisms commonly identified in the human body and their predominant location.

Interest in the human microbiome has increased in recent years, following reports that the type and number of microorganisms seem to play a role in the onset of several medical conditions including obesity, cancer, and diabetes. 

(via freshphotons)

ucsdhealthsciences:

Baby’s bony body

Newborns are a bundle of bones – more than 300 to be more precise. Over time, many of these bones fuse together. One obvious example: The 44 original, separate components of the skull, whose loose confederation allows a newborn’s head to more easily pass through the birth canal and to accommodate dramatic brain and head growth during in the first year of life outside the womb. Generally, an infant’s skull fuses together by age two to provide better protection of the brain.

Overall, the total number of bones in the body is reduced to 206 by the time humans reach adulthood.

Above is a human fetus visualized in the third trimester of pregnancy using a computed tomographic scan and volume rendering software. Courtesy of Philipp Gunz and Jean-Jacques Hublin at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.

aspoonfulofmedicine:

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