🅰️ ANATOMY

Kidney with Polycystic Disease Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic condition where many cysts form in the kidneys, causing them to enlarge and lose function. In the photo, you can see a comparison of a polycystic kidney to a football — this clearly shows how the disease can change the organ's shape and size. It's important to remember that polycystic kidney disease can lead to serious complications like high blood pressure and kidney failure.

"Lion face" is a specific form of hyperostosis that affects the bones of the skull (craniosclerosis). The skull bones, especially in the facial area, grow excessively, gradually compressing and filling all natural cavities and openings. As a result, the face widens and flattens in the middle due to the overgrown upper jaws, giving it some resemblance to a lion's snout.

What you wouldn't do for your child This is Carol Meyer — an Australian woman who, 20 years ago, carried her little son out of a burning house. She saved him. But she herself suffered burns over 85% of her body. Dozens of surgeries. A long rehabilitation. And a life split into 'before' and 'after'. Sometimes motherly love isn't about loud words. It's about stepping into the fire.

Human sperm move at an incredible speed – up to 4 mm per minute, the slowest move at a speed of 1 mm per minute.

At 20 weeks pregnant, she "saw" her baby with her hands. For the blind mom, an ultrasound image was turned into a 3D model — a tactile portrait of the baby that she could feel with her fingers. Next to it was a Braille inscription: "I am your son." Sometimes technology isn’t about gadgets. It’s about the chance to feel something that was previously out of reach.

False hip joint The development of this condition is associated with a disruption of the normal bone healing process after a fracture. This often happens after gunshot wounds or open injuries. In half of all cases, it leads to persistent and severe disability.

This is what amputated limbs look like on an X-ray.

This is what a gunshot wound to the hand looks like.

Teeth of the brain. A four-month-old baby had a brain tumor removed in which numerous fully formed teeth were found. The benign growth – a craniopharyngioma – develops from embryonic cells.

The process of setting a dislocated finger on the hand By the way, there was no fracture, you can clearly see it on the X-ray – that's why the patient was able to move their finger almost immediately without any problem.