May 6, 2019
Host Kevin Patton examines variations in human anatomy, including the fabella bone, situs inversus, and more.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Moses Mendelssohn)
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The fabella is a small, beanlike bone that may (or not) occur behind the knee joint. Recent evidence shows that it's showing up more frequently in the population. Why?
Fabella image: Jmarchn (my-ap.us/2Wm6Di3)
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Situs inversus is a mirrorlike flipping of visceral organs that occurs in embryonic development. Also called situs transversus or situs oppositus. Normal siting of organs is called situs solitus.
ERROR: In my discussion of the cast of situs inversus in the young man from the 1800s, I mixed up my left and right. Yikes. The appendix is on the right in situs solitus, but on the left in situs inversus. This was corrected in the audio file on 10 May 2019, but the correction may not be heard in all available platforms.
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Perhaps variation is normal. And maybe "normal" is a mythical, but useful, construct we use in understanding human anatomy.
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