99 Utterly Wild Photos Of The Human Body From 2024 That Had Me Literally Gaping At My Screen
1.If your fingers and toes get REALLY, REALLY cold — like, so cold they turn a different color — you might be suffering from Raynaud's syndrome. It happens to me a lot, but I've never seen my fingers turn quite THIS yellowish-white.
2.This is what it looks like when your baby is kicking, and I am now reconsidering my desire to have children.
3.Oh, and if you weren't already freaked out enough by pregnancy, check out how much babies can move in the womb.
4.This is how much the brain changes from age 12 to 22.
5.Did you know there'a device that can literally stretch your pupil during eye surgery?
6.Dermatographia (when your skin rises up and becomes irritated where you touch it) has also always been super interesting to me.
7.This fungal tongue infection looks like hair, and I want to personally apologize for showing you this.
8.Here is a kidney stone some poor guy passed.
9.And this is how gnarly a kidney stone can look.
10.Here is what it looks like to have vitiligo, where skin loses its pigment in some spots.
11.And here's how vitiligo can affect hair.
12.This includes eyebrows and eyelashes, btw!
13.TIL Medication can also actually affect your hair color.
14.And during illness or trauma, your body can stop putting pigment in your hair, leading to "stripes" called "flag signs."
15.Sometimes, hair growth and color can change rapidly — this guy lost a patch of hair, and it grew back in white. This can occur due to alopecia areata, stress, cancer, or any number of other reasons, so it's always a good idea to get it checked out.
16.Back to medications — here's a more unpleasant way your body can react to a new medication.
17.I hate to be the one to tell you this, but...it is possible for your eyeball itself to become swollen.
18.Your eyes can also grow tumors. Here, you can see a malignant tumor being removed from the eye.
19.If you're like me, you've had multiple cysts removed from your head, but if you haven't...well, prepare to be disturbed by what one of them looks like.
20.That's right, folks — some cysts and tumors can grow hair. Teratomas can actually grow teeth, eyes, muscles, bones, and hair.
21.One of the coolest-looking eye disorders to me is asteroid hyalosis, where you have these little glittery things floating around in your eye. It's usually harmless, but it looks awesome!
22.Eye injuries are equally cool and terrifying to me. Fun fact: metals rust extremely quickly in your eye and the rust must be separately extracted even after the metal is gone. This is why you wear safety goggles, kids!
23.Ever wondered what frostbite looks like?
24.This is what severe frostbite looks like (warning: it's not for the faint of heart).
25.And this is what frostbite looks like while it's healing.
26.As you can see above, if you have darker skin, burns and frostbite can make the affected area appear pink or white. As you can see below, you'll then be able to see the melanin come back into your skin in dots as your skin grows back and heals.
27.Did you know it's possible to function basically normally even with a large part of your brain missing? This person had a stroke in utero but lived a pretty normal life with some minor difficulties.
28.If you're allergic to bee stings, you can look forward to this when stung.
29.Here's what it looks like when people allergic to mosquitos get a bug bite (also called Skeeter syndrome).
30.Vasodilation — when your blood vessels widen to increase blood flow — can also happen when you get a mosquito bite. This may not sound cool, but it looks awesome.
31.In case you didn't know, our faces look wildly creepy under MRIs.
32.Here's what strands of DNA look like.
33.And here's what dehydrated blood looks like.
34.This is how hairy people's legs can be.
35.Here's how long teeth roots can be.
36.And this is how huge a gallstone can be.
37.This genetic white patch of hair is called a Mallen Streak, but I'm going to go ahead and believe this woman got in a snow fight with her magical older sister named Elsa.
38.I'm convinced the same thing happened to this woman.
39.Have you ever heard of Harlequin Syndrome? Basically, only half of your face will sweat and turn red with exercise/heat.
40.Ever wondered what blood clots actually look like? Wonder no more!
41.These even bigger clots are from someone's HEART.
42.This is how big a pulmonary embolism (essentially, blood clots in the lungs) can get. Don't worry, this patient is fine!
43.Here's how big a Uterine fibroid can get. And BTW, they're pretty common — 20-70% of women will get them during their fertile years.
44.This person has Aniridia, which means they have little to no iris.
45.Here's what brain fluid looks like. I wasn't expecting it to look so much like water?
46.I'm just including this one because it looks gnarly — here's what a cervical fusion surgery scar looks like two weeks post-op.
47.And here's what a brain surgery scar looks like. Spoiler alert: it's pretty freaking metal.
48.Here's what it looks like to be born with two conjoined thumbs.
49.This is what it looks like to be missing your middle finger.
50.Sometimes, if you're born without enough fingers, doctors will sew on toes to create fingers.
51.And if someone has extra fingers, doctors may amputate them. This may sound intense, but here's what an adult looks like who got their extra fingers amputated as a baby!
52.Modern medicine is incredible. You might think there would be heavy scarring after major surgery, but check out how little scarring this person was left with after THREE life-saving heart surgeries.
53.Here's what it looks like to have compartment syndrome – AKA, when pressure builds around your muscles, so the doctor has to cut into your skin to release the pressure, and may even have to leave it open for a bit.
54.Here's another photo of what it looks like after the fasciotomy (the incision made to relieve pressure).
55.Sometimes what seem like minor injuries can be much bigger than you think. This cut almost paralyzed someone's finger and required surgery — watch out for injuries on your joints!
56.Did you know it's possible to have a hair growing on your eardrum? It can actually cause way more issues than you'd think — like nausea, coughing, tinnitus, chronic pain, and even hearing loss. Luckily, removal is pretty easy (but don't try it yourself).
57.Unfortunately, it is also possible to grow an eyelash under your eyelid. They can be super itchy, and plucking them out can be extremely painful. (Please take this moment to be grateful that you DON'T have one. Unless you do. Then I am sincerely sorry, and you should probably have a doctor pluck it out.)
58.It's kind of wild to me how much hair color changes naturally over time. Here's this person's hair as a kid vs. how it looks now.
59.This is what an X-ray looks like when you're wearing a menstrual cup.
60.This person has a purplish birthmark on one eye (along with heterochromia).
61.All kinds of conditions can affect the shape of your pupil — like this one, where a woman has this tiny, irregular-shaped pupil but has no issues with vision beyond some nearsightedness!
62.Though if your pupils are suddenly two different sizes for no discernible reason, please see a doctor immediately.
63.Another medical PSA: If you get an animal or bug bite and redness seems to be traveling through your bloodstream, go to the ER immediately. It's an infection moving through the lymphatic system that can give you sepsis and kill you.
64.Seriously. Here's a guy who got bitten by a cat and got steroids and antibiotics, and look at how much it affected him anyways.
65.As someone with no known allergies, I find allergy skin tests fascinating. This person is allergic to, like, half the things tested.
66.This isn't technically the human body, but I just think prosthetics are so cool. This one has a fingerprint!
67.This also isn't a photo of a body part, but it's still wildly interesting to me. Did you know that people sometimes swallow tiny cameras so doctors can better understand what's going on in their digestive tracts?
68.In case you've ever wondered, here's what a pacemaker looks like.
69.People receiving radiation therapy often have to wear a mask of their face, and this 100% belongs on r/OddlyTerrifying.
70.Ever wondered what a plate and screw embedded into your body might look like? Basically, exactly how you're picturing!
71.These metal bars used to be inside someone's BODY. Basically, they were put there for three years to fix a sunken breastbone. According to OP, it felt like an extra bone, except it MOVED when they breathed too deeply and would sometimes get STUCK on the muscles inside their body.
72.This person has screws holding their vertebrae in place due to their extreme scoliosis. Also, they have FORKED RIBS on one side, so that's fun. Oddly, OP says they don't experience much back pain!
73.Rheumatoid arthritis is no joke.
74.Did you know that if a usable vein can't be found for an IV, they can just stick it in your jugular?
75.Most people have moles, but I bet you've never seen one like this. Still, as long as it's always looked like this, it's likely benign!
76.Did you know that some moles have no color at all? In fact, the only way you know they're there might be because the area grows extra hair.
77.Here's how breast milk changes in color from just a few days after giving birth to weeks after.
78.Here's how much eye color can change naturally over the years! These photos are from ages 2, 6, 17, and 29.
79.Genetics are truly wild to me — I had to do a quick Punnett square in my mind to remember that two brown-eyed parents (top) can have blue and green-eyed children (bottom).
80.Did you know our fingers only have creases because we bend them so much?
81.Here's what it looks like to have hand, foot, and mouth disease.
82.Fun fact: Hand, foot, and mouth disease can cause your nails to fall off — here, you can see nails falling off with new ones growing beneath.
83.Did you know that chemo can also affect your nails?
84.And injuries can cause your nail growth to slow — in this case, only in one arm.
85.Here's how nail biting can affect your nails long-term.
86.If you're low in iron, you might develop "spoon nails" like this.
87.This person is allergic to their own immune system, so, in their words, their skin is sometimes "like 'nope, gotta change.'"
88.I'm willing to bed this is the largest vein you've ever seen — it's called an arteriovenous fistula, where blood goes directly from an artery into a vein, surpassing capillaries that would make the vein appear much smaller.
89.Here's what the "butterfly rash" associated with lupus looks like.
90.Did you know that wearing retainers can actually change the shape of your tongue?
91.You've probably heard that you should elevate an injury. This will cause fluid to drain "up" — and you may literally be able to see that on the bruise.
92.This is how effective k-tape can be at mitigating bruising.
93.People with hyperdontia have extra teeth — often in the roof of their mouth.
94.This is how big wisdom teeth are compared to baby teeth.
95.Unfortunately, it's possible to have wisdom teeth with hooked roots, which creates a fun challenge for your dental surgeon!
96.Here's what all of someone's baby teeth look like after losing them:
97.Did you know that hair can sometimes grow in pairs out of the same follicle? Here's a shaved head under a microscope.
98.If you have a splinter or shard of glass stuck in your skin, your body will eventually push it out on its own — it just might take a few years.
99.And finally...turns out you don't need to go to a body museum or med school to see the cross-section of a finger!
