Gross Anatomy: 50 Bizarre Body Parts

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Since the dawn of man we have been fascinated with the human body. By studying its component parts, we have sought to understand life itself. Leonardo Da Vinci drew many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, as well as muscles and sinews, the heart and vascular system, the sex organs, and other internal organs.

Henry Gray dissected unclaimed bodies from workhouse and hospital mortuaries. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley went even further and explored the idea of combining and reanimating disparate body parts in order to understand and, ultimately, to create life.

This list features some anatomy that probably would have puzzled Da Vinci, Gray and Shelley. Here you will find unusual body parts to eat, body parts to wear, and body parts just to look at.

(thanks Andi)