A spinal tower with fused vertebrae . The castanets of a woman with advanced syphilis . Skeletons deformed by rickets and Hansen’s disease . A fascinating online depository library of deformed bones from the Middle Ages break down live today — and while I did n’t even agnize such a thing existed , now I ca n’t imagine know without it . God bless engineering .
The Digital Diseases website is run by the Royal College of Surgeons in London . It brings together 3D scans of over 1,600 bone specimens ask from patient with drain and deface condition like rickets and Hansen’s disease , and makes them loose for the public to pasture . tire on a Monday morning?Gawk at this deformed spinal columnormarvel at this alien - like skullwith an enlarged cranium . In the scientists’own words , “ it does not resemble any bonk hominid species . ” Cool !
This skull from Chichester evince some unusual endocranial bone change with various horizontal surface of wipeout .
Macabre as the subject topic may seem at times , the Digital Diseases library represents an telling marriage of science and engineering . Those behind the labor used a combination of 3D laser scanning , CT scan and high declaration photography to digitise the specimens . And so while access to these bones was previously only available to students and researchers who could travel to the collection and address the fragile items , the Modern database is destitute for the curious public to search .
It drop dead live tonight , but attempt not to remain up all calendar week looking at 3D simulacrum of one C - old bones . You should save at least some DOE for the company vacation political party . [ Guardian ]
This fused spinal column from York is a superb example of advanced ankylosing spondylitis . Note how difficult it is to make out the case-by-case vertebra .
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