Posted on 04/08/2019 8:40:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Similar groups of five gathered around bodies on the other 15 tables in the anatomy class, all eager to explore the mysteries of the human body they had seen only in textbooks.
The cadaver assigned to Nielsen's team was a 99-year-old woman who had died of natural causes. Her name was Rose Marie Bentley, but the students didn't know that then. To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them.
But as the students and their professors were soon to find out, Bentley was special, so special she deserved her own unique spot in medical literature and history books.
The reason? A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, in which most vital organs are reversed -- almost like a mirror inside the body. That, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Bentley a sort of medical unicorn.
"I think the odds of finding another person like her may be as remote as one in 50 million," said assistant professor Cameron Walker, who teaches the Foundations of Clinical Anatomy class at Oregon Health and Science University. "I don't think any of us will ever forget it, honestly."
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I’m sure her heart was in the right place all 99 years.
So, were her Big Toes where her Little Toes should have been? Were her Thumbs and Pinkies swapped? How far does this “reverse” go?
or maybe that’s why she lived so long :)
our organs are in the wrong places!! :)
I only have a piano.
LOL
It won’t fit!
Haha. That would explain it. :D
The entire body layout is reversed (left/right) as in a mirror image.
As you may have noticed when viewing yourself in a mirror, this does not affect the perceived configuration of your big toes and little toes.
Nor will your mirror image appear to be "standing on its head."
Regards,
I’ll have to check my mirror tonight. Could have sworn it flipped finger and toes.
Maybe I’ll also check the mirror in the hall bathroom. The Master Bedroom mirror might be up to its old tricks. I hope those guys are conspiring when I’m sleeping.
Long as she didn’t have man hands.
Like George the Animal Steele!! :)
She grabs his hand and squashes it when he goes in her purse lol
Are those three going to be next week’s Democrat candidates entering the race for 2020? They need to buy some three piece suits first. No one holds a rally in a long, shiny aluminum gown.
Was thinking the same. If she made it to 99 with the “wrong” anatomy, not sure how thrilled the rest of us should be about being “right.”
Sometimes I tune into CNN, then realize my brain is reversed but soon as I view the b.s. and lies, I snap out of it.
Yes!
I remember reading, quite a few years back, of a man who had his organs just opposite of where they should be. So it has happened before.
My digestive tract is completely reversed, but heart, lungs are normal. It’s been an issue a couple of times, the docs don’t believe me until they’ve seen it for themselves (don’t ask, it’s not pleasant).
I also have an appendix which runs the width of the abdominal cavity, from the wrong side; very unusual I’m told. Doc told me to pay attention to pains coming from anywhere, and to tell the ER.
Captain Pike lives on!
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