Nobody has mentioned the one that always shows up on these threads:
When doctors operate on intestinal stuff, they just jam everything back in. The intestines writhe and wiggle around by themselves until they are back into place correctly.
Fearlessleader85:
Apparently, my great, great aunt was born premature "with her guts hanging out", which i believe would refer to omphalocele, but this happened in the very early 1900s in the extremely rural inland PNW, and doctors were not common, nor were cars. Her mom thought she was going to pass away, so she didn't really want anything to do with her, but her dad didn't want to give up. So he just stuffed her organs inside her as best he could and wrapped a cloth around her belly kinda tight and then carried her around in some type of small box. He took her everywhere, the fields, hunting, everywhere. And surprisingly, she lived. And she was none the worse for wear, her abdomen closed up and her "guts" stayed in and she lived a very long and normal life.
It wasn't until she was in like her late 60s when she was having some sort of relatively minor procedure, might have been a colonoscopy or maybe she got appendicitis or something, but they realized nothing was quite where it was supposed to be. Her liver wasnt quite the right shape and stuff was all jumbled up.
I think she passed away in her mid 90s. So, apparently, yeah, those organs don't really need to be in a specific orientation.
When doctors operate on intestinal stuff, they just jam everything back in. The intestines writhe and wiggle around by themselves until they are back into place correctly.
Fearlessleader85:
Apparently, my great, great aunt was born premature "with her guts hanging out", which i believe would refer to omphalocele, but this happened in the very early 1900s in the extremely rural inland PNW, and doctors were not common, nor were cars. Her mom thought she was going to pass away, so she didn't really want anything to do with her, but her dad didn't want to give up. So he just stuffed her organs inside her as best he could and wrapped a cloth around her belly kinda tight and then carried her around in some type of small box. He took her everywhere, the fields, hunting, everywhere. And surprisingly, she lived. And she was none the worse for wear, her abdomen closed up and her "guts" stayed in and she lived a very long and normal life.
It wasn't until she was in like her late 60s when she was having some sort of relatively minor procedure, might have been a colonoscopy or maybe she got appendicitis or something, but they realized nothing was quite where it was supposed to be. Her liver wasnt quite the right shape and stuff was all jumbled up.
I think she passed away in her mid 90s. So, apparently, yeah, those organs don't really need to be in a specific orientation.