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The children had two heads, two legs and two arms, sharing all the body below the neck. Each child had a separate spine, but shared a heart, liver, lungs and pelvis, and both brains functioned. The boys were featured on the Channel 4 programme Bodyshock on December 19, 2012, where it was reported they had died at six months.
The kidney is mentioned in several biblical verses in conjunction with the heart, much as the bowels were understood to be the "seat" of emotion – grief, joy and pain. [51] Similarly, the Talmud (Berakhoth 61.a) states that one of the two kidneys counsels what is good, and the other evil.
Unlike mammals, the kidneys of reptiles do not have a clear distinction between cortex and medulla. [43] The kidneys lack the loop of Henle, have fewer nephrons (from about 3,000 to 30,000), and cannot produce hypertonic urine. [3] [21] Nitrogenous waste products excreted by the kidneys may include uric acid, urea and ammonia. [55]
A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy fingers after deciding to get them amputated, and body integrity identity disorder is why doctors agreed to it.
Edward Mordake, a disputed story of a 19th-century man with a face on the back of his head; Futakuchi-onna, a female Japanese yōkai with mouth on back of her head/hair; Janus, a Roman god with two faces; Kara Mia, a Philippine TV series that tells the story of a young woman with two faces divided in one body. Polycephaly
These include the brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. Most people are born with two kidneys, but some individuals don't know what function or purpose they serve. The bean-shaped organs are ...
A person's inherent faculties were clear, and no faculty was viewed as evil, though the abuse of a faculty was. Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege. [30] [31] Phrenology also had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a radical one. [32]
Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled Mordrake) is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was born in the 19th century as the heir to an English peerage with a face at the back of his head. [1] According to legend, the face could whisper, laugh or cry. Mordake repeatedly begged doctors to remove it, claiming it whispered bad things to him at ...