what the...........?!?

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ummm.... is that real? If that picture is real... um... I'm completely speechles. I can't even imagine would would have... um....
 
Wasnt expecting that. Sad though.
 
nmnrraven said:
It appears to be a case of terminal bonitis. Very sad disease.
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what is that? elaborate por favor
 
Terminal bonitis is from the cartoon show futurama. I think the poster is as stumped as we all are.... is everyone still sure this isn't a joke? um.... :scared:
 
mota, thanks for the links. I can't believe how horrible that is..
 
omgwtfbbq? said:
mota, thanks for the links. I can't believe how horrible that is..
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I coincidentally saw a similar case on TLC with a little girl tonight. She had some sort of defect pertaining to the skull plates, fused together or not adjusting right to growth or something. The brain ends up growing outwards toward the face, making the eyes bulge, and in the case I saw on tv, growing literaly through the skin on the forehead where a bone should be. Saddest thing ever...twice in one night! Crazyness.
 
Oh my God. That's so sad. I guess as a future physician, it would be best to make the child as comfortable as possible and support/comfort the parents...wow....that's all I can say.
 
Yeah saw that elsewhere. It's different eh!? Sucks that even if he lived, he would have been the center of attention his whole life.
 
That appears to be more of acrania w/ meroanencephaly. Anencephaly implies more of a gross defect w/ most of the forebrain missing. This baby appears to be have an far underdeveloped calavaria w/ what I assume is a partial loss of brain tissue (definition of meroanencephaly).
 
kinda funny how the article kept referring to the baby as "it" when the baby is clearly a "he."
 
Holy ****

This is from the site mota linked to. That's freakin crazy.

EDIT: Holy cow. Explore the picks on that site (just push <-- and --> ) and you will see some amazing photos (if you are into embryology and defects).
 
Krazykritter said:
That appears to be more of acrania w/ meroanencephaly. Anencephaly implies more of a gross defect w/ most of the forebrain missing. This baby appears to be have an far underdeveloped calavaria w/ what I assume is a partial loss of brain tissue (definition of meroanencephaly).
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I'm sitting here with two pathology residents and they say that the baby definitely just had plain old anencephaly.
 
Look what the sources are -- snopes and wikipedia, neither of which are reliable sources.
 
fpr85 said:
Look what the sources are -- snopes and wikipedia, neither of which are reliable sources.
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I'd actually argue that both are relatively reliable resources - for example, snopes links to University of Utah Health Sciences Center. And in general, Wikipedia's strength is in helping point to other sources to read (i.e. acting as an introductory text) and/or in confirming what you're pretty sure of. A Nature online study showed no significant difference in the number of errors in WP vs. Encyclopedia Britannica, the gold standard -- the major critique was of poor writing.
 
It is weird that guy is just holding it up in the middle of a crowd.
 
Whootman said:
What I want to know is why did they put the baby in a bowl?
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cultural differences? those dolakhans be crazy!
-mota
 
drmota said:
cultural differences? those dolakhans be crazy!
-mota
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Love the Snopes, too, mota!
As the resident medical anthropologist I am not surprised by the bowl. Certainly looked like a funeral procession and the child was probably placed in the bowl because in parts of the world where infant mortality is high and social conditions are dire, children are not "incorporated" into the family until they prove themselves to be healthy and viable.

A wonderfully sad anthropological account is Nancy Schepper-Hughes' "Death Without Weeping."
 
Scrub MD said:
It is weird that guy is just holding it up in the middle of a crowd.
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yeah, i thought so too...

when i think about all the things that can go wrong during the course of a pregnancy, it makes me thankful that i'm a relatively healthy person. man...
 
I saw some weird preserved malformed babies at the anatomy lab at the University of Virginia school of Medicine a coupla years back. Has anyone else seen anything really weird (in person).
I also worked in the neonatology unit at a local hospital and asked this nurse I worked with what the weirdest thing she ever saw was...she said she was inspecting a baby once - who looked pretty normal at first glance - but when she opened her eyes there was no eyes in the socket. 😕
 
There is something very, very, extremely disturbing about a malformed baby. :scared:
 
cultural and social conditions...I love the kid with the A|X shirt standing next to the ceremonial pot at the funeral
 
some of those folks think that these babies are gods or reincarnated gods for that fact that's why it is in a bowl/
 
bgtati said:
some of those folks think that these babies are gods or reincarnated gods for that fact that's why it is in a bowl/
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are you sure about that or just guessing?
 
Anencephalic "babies" have little more than a brain stem, and sometimes traces of cerebellum. They do not have a cerebrum. If they did, that would classify them as microcephalic, a whole different classification. Anencephalies do not have, nor are capable of having, consciousness. They look like babies, and they "survive" for a short while, and that makes it disturbing. I know that this may come across as being cold, but resist the urge to anthropomorphize them. Empathize with the "mother" and "father," but not with the "baby."
 
The article states that the baby is dead.
 
fpr85 said:
The article states that the baby is dead.
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I wasn't referring specifically to that "baby," as indicated by my use of "they" instead of "it."
 
OctoDoc said:
I wasn't referring specifically to that "baby," as indicated by my use of "they" instead of "it."
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"Dude," take "it" easy "with all" the "quotes."
 
clicky said:
"Dude," take "it" easy "with all" the "quotes."
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My quotes are in the proper places and are for the proper context. Dude.
 
wait, we're arguing over dead babies?
-mota
 
drmota said:
wait, we're arguing over dead babies?
-mota
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Not me. I'm just trying to escape from the punctuation police.
 
Zoom-Zoom said:
I coincidentally saw a similar case on TLC with a little girl tonight. She had some sort of defect pertaining to the skull plates, fused together or not adjusting right to growth or something. The brain ends up growing outwards toward the face, making the eyes bulge, and in the case I saw on tv, growing literaly through the skin on the forehead where a bone should be. Saddest thing ever...twice in one night! Crazyness.
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My favorite is HARLEQUIN FETUS:
http://asylumeclectica.com/malady/archives/harlequin.htm

Mota: you are in for amazement, as Tulane boasts an amazing embryological collection (basically, babies in jars with various conditions).
 
drmota said:
cultural differences? those dolakhans be crazy!
-mota
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What a sec-that's a "representation" of a baby, right? It's not the real thing itself, I don't think...
 
anon-y-mouse said:
Mota: you are in for amazement, as Tulane boasts an amazing embryological collection (basically, babies in jars with various conditions).
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awesome
-mota
 
looks like a statue to me! lol but yeah this is hella sad. This is something people shouldn't be laughing about. I wonder if this is genetically-linked to this guy's disease?
 
i'm speechless. that's so insane.
 
Whootman said:
What I want to know is why did they put the baby in a bowl?
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They obviously are planning to eat the baby.
 
fpr85 said:
Yes. They actually had a special on him ("Medical Incredibles", I believe.) on the Discovery Health Channel.
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Man, I miss my parents' satellite 🙁
 
drmota said:
wait, we're arguing over dead babies?
-mota
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i'm surprised.... 2 pages and not a single dead baby joke? you're all so tasteful... 😴
 
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