What organ is this?

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[Splatter Phoenix]

1. Jesus CHRIST that's disgusting.

....eyeball? ._.

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2. Actually its not an eyeball though it looks like one

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/ENT/otoscopy_tutorial.htm

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. It looks like inside the ear.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Example of normal looking tympanic membrane (eardrum)

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5. yeah, that's right

I've never spent any time in there so it's not what I expected

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. You can see where the malleus bone attaches to the membrane.

The malleus is one of the 3 bone system (malleus, incus, stapes) that transmits sound vibration from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear.

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7. Vesalius is that you?

:bounce:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Anatomy was not my super strong suit, that's why I'm not a surgeon LOL.

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10. Vesalius is my all time favorite historical figure

the intersection of art and science... his drawings were just amazing and I heard he dug up corpses out of scientific interest

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. He and Bill Frist would probably enjoy a beer and some stories.

Grave robbing was a major feature of supplying medical schools with cadavers until not all that long ago.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Vesalius was a giant in medicine and Western science... Another that

is well worth reading about is Sir William Harvey, who figured out through careful anatomic analysis the true nature of the circulatory system. Hugely important, elegant reasoning/deduction.

I'm sure he'd be head of the National Science Foundation in the Bush Administration. :sarcasm:

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18. He was the first to figure out the circulation, wasn't he?

Amazing that nobody understood the heart was a pump until he did.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. Well they understood it was a pump--but the key realization was that

the whole thing is a circle or circuit. Without being able to see the existence of capillaries, tiny vessels that bridge the smallest arteries and smallest veins, the whole thing was a mystery until Harvey. Harvey was not able to see the capillaries but nonetheless inferred their existence and the circulation of blood from artery to vein, the discovery of capillaries was shortly after he died.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_harvey.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. I don't know what's wrong in the pic you posted, but it's "abbie" normal.

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11. too much wax?

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/ENT/otoscopy_tutorial.htm

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I'm no ENT but I've, ahem, seen a lot of earwax, it doesn't look like that

Looks like maybe the membrane is "retracted" or withdrawn from its normal shape, perhaps due to infection or something. Don't sue me if I'm wrong.

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14. To the untrained eye it lookslike an eyeball

with some kind of alien goo sticking to it.

[TroubleMan]

16. That looks like at used condom laying on a donut.

When I right click and hit properties, it says small%20wax, so I'm guessing it's something in your ear.

Okay, I know that's cheating.

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17. maybe its a condom with an eyeball in it

:shrug:

[datasuspect]

20. looks sphincterlicious

[Lady Freedom]

21. Vocal Cords?

:shrug:

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23. Here's some vocal cords for you

[MrScorpio]

22. A Hammond P3

No?