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Teratology
- Elephatiasis
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Pretzel Syndrome
- Malformed skeleton, brain, and other organs; also electrolyte imbalance
- Polyhydramnios (an excess of amniotic fluid) of mothers seems like the leading cause of this disease
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Progeria (accelerated aging)
- Hutchinson Guildford Progeria (full name)
- Accelerated Aging Effects
- average life span is 13 years
- Hayley Okines
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Kallman's Syndrome (no puberty)
- Lawrence Koomson
- Jimmy Scott
- defect that causes the pituitary gland and hypothalamus stopping sexual hormone production
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- sufferer's life expected to end in the early 20s
- Stuart Wickison
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Gigantism
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Pituitary Giantism
- Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk
- Robert Wadlow
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Brenden Adams
- 7ft 12year old
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Momo Syndrome
- Archie Thompson
- macrosomia, a combination of three conditions: obesity (excess weight), macrocephaly (large head) and ocular (of the eyes)
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Dwarfism
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Primordial
- thought to be caused by incorrect collagen structure
- Alex Connerty
- only arms/legs are small; the torso is average sized
- Danielle Griffin
- Winged Cat
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Double Muscle
- Wendy the Incredible Whippet
- myostatin-related hypertrophy
- ?Uberboy born in Germany
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Speech Disorder
- KE family
- Foreign Language Syndrone
- Split Brain
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Magnetism
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Lightning Man
- Roy Cleveland Sullivan
- Angelique Cottin
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Jennie Morgan
- Sedalia, Missouri
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Caroline Clare
- Canada
- Inga Gaiduchenko
- Liew Thow Lin
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Electrosensitivity
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Allergic to Modern Technology
- Debbie Bird
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Strange Growths
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Wire growths
- NOORSYAIDAH
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Root Man
- Dede Koswara
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The Boy with a Tumor for a Face
- Novemthree Siahaan
- gigantiform cementoma
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Proteus Syndrome
- tumor-like growths of skin and bone appear as those with this grow
- born without deformities
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Elephant Man
- Joseph Merrick
- may have been caused by a combination of Neurofibromatosis (NF1) and Proteus Syndrome that affected his bones, skin and nervous system
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Jordan
- lives in Bexhill-on-Sea with mum Tracy and dad Dean
- 9 years old
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Four Ears
- Yoda the Cat
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Multiple Legs
- 6-legged Deer
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Four-Legged Woman
- Myrtle Corbin
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Three Legged Man
- George Lippert
- had three legs and two hearts
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The Man With Three Legs
- Francesco Lentini
- legs were of three different lengths
- had an extra set of genitals
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No Legs (Half-a-Body)
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the Half-Man
- Johnny Eck
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RoseMarie (Rose) Siggins
- Sacral Agenesis
- deformed legs that were amputated by doctors at a young age
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Limb Deficiency (No/Very Little Arms/Legs)
- Alison Lapper; Painter
- Dustin Carter; Wrestler
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Sirenomelia - Mermaid Syndrome
- Milagros CerrĂ³n
- born with legs fused together
- genitals are obscured making gender identification hard
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Inverted limbs
- Pony Boy
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Two Faces
- Baby girl in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh
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Edward Mordake "Poor Edward"
- face on the back of the head
- Chang Tzu Ping
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The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal
- head on top of other
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No Face
- Juliana Wetmore
- born without several face bones (but technically still has a face)
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Chimera
- Genetic Chimerism; having two sets of DNA
- mothers can have children who DNA test to be NOT RELATED
- Lydia Fairchild
- Karen Keegan
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True Hermaphroditism
- born with genital parts of both sexes
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Two Wombs
- Claire Miles
- born with two wombs, two cervixes and two vaginas
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Twins
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Parasitic
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Girl with Eight Limbs
- Lakshmi Tatma
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Twin in Stomach
- Sanju Bhagat
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Two Boys with One Head
- Len and Ernie
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Handsome, Healthy, Happy Hindoo
- Laloo
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Cojoined
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Abigail and Brittany Hensel
- appear as two heads on one body
- control muscles and feel sensations on their side of their body above the torso
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Maria de Jesus (Josie) and Maria Theresa (Teresita) Alvarez
- joined at the head
- Lori and Dori Schappel
- Laleh and Ladan Bijani
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Stone Baby
- Zahra Aboutalib is the mother
- baby remained in body when it's birth was stalled
- baby remained in mother's body for 46 years
- Mike the Headless Chicken
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Horns
- Lurch the Watusi Bull - Giant horns
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Cutaneous Horn
- Wang the Human Unicorn
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"Unicorn" the one horned roe deer
- nature preserve in Italy
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Werewolf Syndrome
- hypertrichosis
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Werewolf Boy
- Pruthviraj Patil
- Abys DeJesus
- Jesus Fajardo Manuel Aceves
- Human-faced Koi Fish
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Proprioceptive Dysfunction
- Clumsiness
- Fish Odor Syndrome
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- suffer from maple syrup-smelling urine
- also experience poor feeding, vomiting, hypotonia and neurological decline
- if untreated, person will eventually get brain damage and die
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Skin Condition
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Skin Notepad
- Huang Xiangji
- artificial urticaria
- Blue People of Kentucky
- Blaschko's lines
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Harlequin Ichthyosis (Harlequin Babies)
- skin grows faster than normal
- body eventually becomes encased within an 'armor' of skin
- Lucy Betts
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Constant Bleeding
- Twinkle Dwivedi
- clotting disorder
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Savant
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Daniel Paul Tammet
- Savant that isn't debilitated
- The Incredible Brain
- Orlando Serrell
- George Widener
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Kim Peek
- original "Rain Man" that inspired the movie
- Derek Paravicini
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Synesthesia
- associating numbers/letter and colors
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Eidetic memory
- can accurately recall images, sounds, or objects from memory
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Perfect Memory
- AJ
- can remeber any time in the past as if it were recent
- stronger than Eidetic memory
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"7 second" Memory
- Clive Wearing
- cannot form new memories nor recall past memories
- retains only implicit memory (speech, skills, feelings for people, etc)
- happened suddenly (i.e. no dramatic accident); a virus (cold sore virus) crossed over into his brain
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Hemispherectomy (life with only Half a Brain)
- Cameron Mott
- if brain half is removed early enough, brain can rewire itself to regain full control of body
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5 year old mother
- Lina Medina
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Rubberboy
- Daniel Browning Smith
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Unsatible Urge to Write/Paint/Express
- Tommy McHugh
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Unusual Apitite
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Mister Eat-it-All
- Michel Lotito
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Can only stomach Tic Tacs
- Natalie Cooper
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Pica
- Urge to eat non-edible items
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Prader Willi Syndrome
- constant hunger
- uncurable
- Rebecca Medley
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Supertaster
- stronger tasting ability possibly due to extra fungiform papillae
- can taste bitterness where normal people can't
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King Tooth
- Rathakrishnan Velu
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Persistent Insomnia
- Thai Ngoc
- Rhett Lamb
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Reflex
- Jumping frenchman disorder
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cataplexy
- Kay Underwood
- strong emotion causes dramatic weakening of muscles
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Waking from YEARS of Coma (a real-life Rip Van Winkle)
- Terry Wallis
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Pain Unsensitivity
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The Torture King
- Tim Cridland
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Cold Unsensitivty
- Wim Hof
- Lung Capacity (Deep Diving Ability)
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Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome
- Sarah Carmen
- Michelle Thompson
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Lipodystrophy (rapidy body fat usage)
- Mr Perry
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Allergic to Clean Water
- Ashleigh Morris
- Aquagenic Urticaria
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Ipex Syndrome
- immune system won't shut off
- body attacks itself
- Toby Ellis
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Uncured Hiccups
- Chris Sands
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Dystonia (uncured cramping & twitching)
- some sufferers get cramps of the throat limiting/preventing speech
- some sufferers' eyes uncontrollably blink or remain shut
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Tourette's Syndrome
- unvoluntary twitches, tics, and verbal outbursts
- unvoluntary swearing
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Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- no UV damage recovery
- must stay out of sun to live
- Abby Perkins-Banks
- Alien hand syndrome
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Moebius Syndrome
- lack of certain facial muscles
- cannot smile , frown, or exhibit many other facial expressions
- often sleep with opened eyes
- cannot move eyes to the side
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Eye
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Routine Eye Swell/Shuting
- Natalie Adler
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+/- Color Vision
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Tetrachromacy (Super Color Vision)
- tetrachromacy
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Color Blindness
- dichromacy
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brain damage
- Color blindness caused by BRAIN DAMAGE
- Cerebral achromatopsia
- Colorblind Painter
- Jonathan I.
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Crossed Eyes
- Strabismus
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Blepharospasm
- Uncontrollable blinking
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+/- Fingers/Toes
- Webbed Toe
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Polydactyly
- baby boy from Leizhou, Guangdong 16 toes
- "dragon girl" 12 fingers/toes
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Lobster Claw Syndrome
- Ostrich People of Zimbabwe
- ectrodactyly
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Pinhead
- microcephaly
- Zip the Pinhead
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Cone Head
- Crouzon's Syndrome
- skull fuses together and refuses to grow anymore; brain must grow in a new direction
- Petero Byakatonda
- True Human Tail
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Survived Rabies
- rabies is 100% lethal
- Jeanna Giese
- put under coma close to death for several days so that body could build antibody response
- Milwaukee Protocol
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progessiva
- Luciana Wulkan
- muscles gradually turn to bone
- sufferers are eventually frozen in place
- (if they are lucky, they can chose to spend the rest of their life sitting or standing)
- organs eventually fail with the weight of the extra bone
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Butterfly Girl (Butterfly Children)
- Epidermolysis Bullosa
- Adana Forsyth
- skin and internal linings blister and peel at slightest touch
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Immortal Cells
- cells from Henrietta Lacks
- cells divide indefinitely (thus never affected by age)