We often associate symmetry with health and beauty, but a perfect body is a biological myth. Underneath the surface, our anatomy is messy, crowded, and beautifully chaotic.
While you must have gotten the drift from textbook diagrams, these photos are one of those rare chances to actually see our internal architecture without any filter or medical censorship.
Here, things get weird in the best way possible — like lightning-bolt scars stamped on a survivor’s skin, or rare conditions like the werewolf syndrome.
If you want to know just how far our bodies can bend the rules of biology to keep us going, Bored Panda has pulled together some of the most mind-blowing pics. Some of these honestly look like they belong in a sci-fi movie.
#41 Erythema Ab Igne, AKA "Fire Stains". I Have Been Lying On A Heating Pad For A Year Due To A Lower Back Injury
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#42 My Feet Do This Automatically... It's Like I Have No Tendons In My Ankles To Hold My Feet Upright. Creeps My Family Out! My Mom Had The Same Thing
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#43 The Skull Room In The Archaeology Department Here Has Skulls From Throughout Human And Primate Evolution
I took this photo of a homo sapien (human) child's skull with its jawbone partially removed to expose unerupted adult teeth.
Little tooth buds form and begin to develop into teeth during early childhood.
Little tooth buds form and begin to develop into teeth during early childhood.
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#44 I Had A Fasciotomy
I snapped both my forearms at the same time.
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#46 What My Fingers Look Like When I Get Out Of The Bath After Years Of Biting Them
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#47 My Hand/Arm Gets A Gradient When At Rest Due To Blood Pooling From POTS
The real issue is my autonomic nervous system. I like to say my circulatory system is really trying its best despite what it looks like.
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#48 Close Ups Of Skin From My Tongue (Peeled Off Due To A Burn)
It was gyoza. I thought I let it cool down enough. My tongue hurts the whole day, and at night it peels.
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#51 Birth Control Implant Started Rejecting Several Months Ago After Almost 3 Yrs Of Having It, Today It Finally Erupted And Is Now Exposed
My removal surgery is next week, so I'm not neglecting this or anything. I have classical-like Ehlers-Danlos (faulty connective tissue/collagen), which affects my skin, so I'm not really surprised that this has happened. This is my 3rd implant to date, and this has never happened before, so I have no idea what triggered it.
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#52 My Scar Doesn't Hold Dirt
I was trying to open a window, and by God, I opened it.
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#55 Anonychia Congenita Is A Condition That Causes People To Be Unable To Grow Nails
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#56 31 And Still Have A Baby Tooth
Went to the dentist because I had a white thing poking out of my gums. Turns out it was my adult tooth underneath, and my baby canine never actually fell out.
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#58 Fingernails Are Falling Off As A Result Of My Hands, Feet, And Mouth Disease
The ring finger was worse, but I clipped it to make it not catch on everything.
Also, they’re all starting at the same point, from two months of nail growth, and they’re only just now falling off.
The same thing happened to my nieces (who I got it from), and I’ve only heard of one other case that made the nails fall off. Perhaps it’s a specific strain that does this?
Also, they’re all starting at the same point, from two months of nail growth, and they’re only just now falling off.
The same thing happened to my nieces (who I got it from), and I’ve only heard of one other case that made the nails fall off. Perhaps it’s a specific strain that does this?
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#59 I Know There’s Nothing Super Remarkable Here, But I’ve Been Staring At My Colon For A While. Radiologists Can Really Just Find Out Where Every Fart Is Stored, Huh??
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