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  2. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. The appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible plant materials. [10]

  3. Aposthia - Wikipedia

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    The Midrash of Ki-Tetze [כי תצא] claims that Moses was born aposthic. Other sources [which?] that Jacob, his son Gad and King David were also born aposthic. The book Abot De-Rabbi Natan (The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan) contains a list of persons from the Israelite Scriptures that were "born circumcised": Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the wicked Balaam, Samuel, David ...

  4. Congenital amputation - Wikipedia

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    Congenital amputation is birth without a limb or limbs, or without a part of a limb or limbs.. It is known to be caused by blood clots forming in the fetus while in utero (vascular insult) and from amniotic band syndrome: fibrous bands of the amnion that constrict fetal limbs to such an extent that they fail to form or actually fall off due to missing blood supply.

  5. Women without an appendix or tonsils may be more fertile - AOL

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  6. Situs inversus - Wikipedia

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    Many people with situs inversus totalis are unaware of their unusual anatomy until they seek medical attention for an unrelated condition, such as a rib fracture or a bout of appendicitis. The condition may also be discovered during the administration of certain medicines or during tests such as a barium meal or enema . [ 3 ]

  7. 'Being born without a womb hit me hard' - AOL

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    The filmmaker, who was born without a womb, has now created a short film to raise awareness of the rare condition. "To be told I haven't got a womb and not be able to carry my own child, was ...

  8. ‘I didn’t realise you could be born without a womb until it ...

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    I didn’t know other people had the same problem as me.” She was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome , a condition that means she was born without a uterus, vagina, or cervix.

  9. Tetra-amelia syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker who was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, speaking during the session "Inspired for a Lifetime" at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 30 January 2011. [4] [5] Joanne O'Riordan (born 1996), Irish activist and sports journalist