Riddle or medical fact?

[kwgold]

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Which part of the body does not grow after birth? Anybody know?

 

[uptoolate]

Which part of the body does not grow after birth? Anybody know?

Most people think its the eyeball-here's an explanation (not from me):

You have asked an interesting question. According to the text Ocular Pathology by D. J. Apple and M. F. Rabb (Mosby, 1985) the diameter of a newborn's eyeball is about 18 mm; it increases rapidly during the first year of life, but after this, growth is very slow. The reasons behind eyeball growth are not precisely known. This was discussed in a great book by Richard J. Goss called The physiology of growth (Academic Press, 1978, pp. 191-199). Eye growth in a developing chick can be diminished by introducing a small tube into the eye to drain off intraocular fluid and reduce intraocular pressure (AJ Coulombre, Journal of Experimental Zoology, vol. 133, pp. 211-225, 1956 "The role of intraocular pressure in the development of the chick eye"). When this is done, the eyeball fails to enlarge normally, but the retina nevertheless keeps on growing, so that by the time the chick is ready to hatch from the egg, the eyeball is smaller than normal, but the retina has enlarged to form a highly folded sheet of neural tissue crowded within the eyeball. Lower animals such as fish apparently are able to enlarge their eyeballs and retinas steadily over the course of their entire lives, but this ability is lost in mammals and birds.

 

[lilmo]

is it the ossicles? or something else in the ear?

 

[Obedeli]

Your legs.

 

[liverotcod]

Your innocence.

 

[JudoKing01]

Your BRAAAAAAAAAINS

 

[Fantasy Sports]

Which part of the body does not grow after birth? Anybody know?

Kind of a cheating answer in that it doesn't answer the question directly... but the number of eggs in a woman's body.

 

[Obedeli]

Your innocence.

AHHhhhhhh

 

[liverotcod]

AHHhhhhhh

Hey! You got puke on my pithy words of wisdom!

No, you got wisdom on my barf!

Hey, this tastes pretty good. Let's call it Reese's Vomit Cup.

 

[wam_256]

😱

 

[carrie198]

is it the thymus?

 

[IgweEmeka]

is it the thymus?

no it isn't. sorry, try again.

 

[ellehcim]

Umbilicus

 

[Zephyrus]

your penis. no, not everyone's, yours

Z

 

[felipe5]

the urachus

 

[AStudent]

Ovarian follicles?

 

[AStudent]

Ovarian follicles?

Umbilical cord?

 

[whoam]

The size of our cells don't increase in sizr they increase in number.

 

[idq1i]

The size of our cells don't increase in sizr they increase in number.

Try again 😉

re: original post - cochlea

 

[ajrooney]

Try again 😉

re: original post - cochlea

The outer ear including the pinna

 

[dinesh]

hair on ur hand?
Size of veins or something?

<dinesh is completly lost>