~Through the world of Sawbones~

Eating whatever you want without gaining weight may sound like a dream, But it’s a daily battle for Lizzie velasquez . Elizabeth Anne Velásquez  ( born March 13, 1989) is an American  motivational speaker , author, and  YouTuber . She was born with an extremely  rare congenital disease  called  Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome  that, among other  symptoms , prevents her from accumulating  body fat  and gaining weight. Her conditions resulted in  bullying  during her childhood. During her  teenage  years, she faced cyber bullying, which ultimately inspired her to take up motivational speaking. Velásquez's condition is a very rare, previously undiagnosed and non- terminal  genetic disorder.Her condition bears similarities to many other conditions, especially  progeria . Medical researchers at the  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center  previously speculated that it m...

A man with a rare condition made the clinicians in Brazil scratch their heads after the skin on his scalp began to loosen and form the shape of a brain. His ailment has been identified as Cutis Verticis Gyrata,     and is a benign and essentially aesthetic condition. The soft folds that can count up to ten, typically affect the central and back regions of the head, but sometimes cover the entire scalp. The cause of the deformation remains a mystery in most cases. The condition is then classified as “primary CVG”. While it can be present on its own, the condition is often associated with other abnormalities, such as mental deficiency, epilepsy, schizophrenia, seizures, deafness and blindness. This patient has no symptoms of psychiatric or neurological disorders, but is intellectually impaired. “Secondary CVG” is caused by a disease, unbalanced hormones or drugs that lead to changes in scalp structure. For example acromegaly, a syndrome that results when the anterior ...

We all feel blue once in a while, but some people actually are blue. This rare condition is caused by chronic ingestion or inhaling of silver. As a consequence, silver particles accumulate in the skin over time and darken with exposure to sunlight, resulting in an irreversible blue or gray skin tone. Argyria  or  argyrosis  is a  condition   caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element  silver , or to silver dust. The most dramatic symptom of argyria is that the  skin  turns purple or purple-grey. It may take the form of  generalized argyria  or  local argyria . Generalized argyria affects large areas over much of the visible surface of the body. Local argyria shows in limited regions of the body, such as patches of skin, parts of the  mucous membrane  or the  conjunctiva . In 2007, press reports described Paul Karason, an  American  man whose entire skin gradually turned...

Prithviraj Patil has a condition that makes him look like a werewolf Prithviraj Patil from Maharashtra suffers from an extreme case of Hypertrichosis which is also known as werewolf syndrome. The name stems from the fact that people who have this get dark and thick hair growth all over their faces and bodies. There only about 20 reported cases of this worldwide.

In October of 2005 a baby girl was born with 4 arms, 4 legs, and 2 torsos in a remote region of India called Bihar. She was named after the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity,  Lakshmi , because of her resemblance to the deity. People came from all over the region to get blessings from the baby girl they believed was an incarnation of a goddess. However, Lakshmi’s parents wanted to give her a normal, healthy life, so they sought medical help. But none of the local doctors could offer any assistance because her medical condition is extremely rare and complex. Lakshmi Tatma was diagnosed with a condition called  ischiopagi , the medical term for conjoined twins joined at the pelvis;  ischio  is Greek for hip, relating to the  ischium , and  pagus  meaning fixed or united.    In Lakshmi’s case the twin was parasitic. Conjoined twins is one of the rarest congenital anomalies because they only happen in 1:50,000-1:...