Teratology | Mind Map

Elephatiasis

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

Progeria (accelerated aging)

Hutchinson Guildford Progeria (full name)

Accelerated Aging Effects

average life span is 13 years

Hayley Okines

Kallman's Syndrome (no puberty)

Lawrence Koomson

Jimmy Scott

defect that causes the pituitary gland and hypothalamus stopping sexual hormone production

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

sufferer's life expected to end in the early 20s

Stuart Wickison

Gigantism

Pituitary Giantism

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk

Robert Wadlow

Brenden Adams

7ft 12year old

Momo Syndrome

Archie Thompson

macrosomia, a combination of three conditions: obesity (excess weight), macrocephaly (large head) and ocular (of the eyes)

Dwarfism

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

Double Muscle

Wendy the Incredible Whippet

myostatin-related hypertrophy

?Uberboy born in Germany

Speech Disorder

KE family

Foreign Language Syndrone

Split Brain

Magnetism

Lightning Man

Roy Cleveland Sullivan

Angelique Cottin

Jennie Morgan

Sedalia, Missouri

Caroline Clare

Canada

Inga Gaiduchenko

Liew Thow Lin

Electrosensitivity

Allergic to Modern Technology

Debbie Bird

Strange Growths

Wire growths

NOORSYAIDAH

Root Man

Dede Koswara

The Boy with a Tumor for a Face

Novemthree Siahaan

gigantiform cementoma

Proteus Syndrome

tumor-like growths of skin and bone appear as those with this grow

born without deformities

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

Jordan

lives in Bexhill-on-Sea with mum Tracy and dad Dean

9 years old

Four Ears

Yoda the Cat

Multiple Legs

6-legged Deer

Four-Legged Woman

Myrtle Corbin

Three Legged Man

George Lippert

had three legs and two hearts

The Man With Three Legs

Francesco Lentini

legs were of three different lengths

had an extra set of genitals

No Legs (Half-a-Body)

the Half-Man

Johnny Eck

RoseMarie (Rose) Siggins

Sacral Agenesis

deformed legs that were amputated by doctors at a young age

Limb Deficiency (No/Very Little Arms/Legs)

Alison Lapper; Painter

Dustin Carter; Wrestler

Sirenomelia - Mermaid Syndrome

Milagros Cerrón

born with legs fused together

genitals are obscured making gender identification hard

Inverted limbs

Pony Boy

Two Faces

Baby girl in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh

Edward Mordake "Poor Edward"

face on the back of the head

Chang Tzu Ping

The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal

head on top of other

No Face

Juliana Wetmore

born without several face bones (but technically still has a face)

Chimera

Genetic Chimerism; having two sets of DNA

mothers can have children who DNA test to be NOT RELATED

Lydia Fairchild

Karen Keegan

True Hermaphroditism

born with genital parts of both sexes

Two Wombs

Claire Miles

born with two wombs, two cervixes and two vaginas

Twins

Parasitic

Girl with Eight Limbs

Lakshmi Tatma

Twin in Stomach

Sanju Bhagat

Two Boys with One Head

Len and Ernie

Handsome, Healthy, Happy Hindoo

Laloo

Cojoined

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

Maria de Jesus (Josie) and Maria Theresa (Teresita) Alvarez

joined at the head

Lori and Dori Schappel

Laleh and Ladan Bijani

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

Horns

Lurch the Watusi Bull - Giant horns

Cutaneous Horn

Wang the Human Unicorn

"Unicorn" the one horned roe deer

nature preserve in Italy

Werewolf Syndrome

hypertrichosis

Werewolf Boy

Pruthviraj Patil

Abys DeJesus

Jesus Fajardo Manuel Aceves

Human-faced Koi Fish

Proprioceptive Dysfunction

Clumsiness

Fish Odor Syndrome

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

Skin Condition

Skin Notepad

Huang Xiangji

artificial urticaria

Blue People of Kentucky

Blaschko's lines

Harlequin Ichthyosis (Harlequin Babies)

skin grows faster than normal

body eventually becomes encased within an 'armor' of skin

Lucy Betts

Constant Bleeding

Twinkle Dwivedi

clotting disorder

Savant

Daniel Paul Tammet

Savant that isn't debilitated

The Incredible Brain

Orlando Serrell

George Widener

Kim Peek

original "Rain Man" that inspired the movie

Derek Paravicini

Synesthesia

associating numbers/letter and colors

Eidetic memory

can accurately recall images, sounds, or objects from memory

Perfect Memory

AJ

can remeber any time in the past as if it were recent

stronger than Eidetic memory

"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

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

5 year old mother

Lina Medina

Rubberboy

Daniel Browning Smith

Unsatible Urge to Write/Paint/Express

Tommy McHugh

Unusual Apitite

Mister Eat-it-All

Michel Lotito

Can only stomach Tic Tacs

Natalie Cooper

Pica

Urge to eat non-edible items

Prader Willi Syndrome

constant hunger

uncurable

Rebecca Medley

Supertaster

stronger tasting ability possibly due to extra fungiform papillae

can taste bitterness where normal people can't

King Tooth

Rathakrishnan Velu

Persistent Insomnia

Thai Ngoc

Rhett Lamb

Reflex

Jumping frenchman disorder

cataplexy

Kay Underwood

strong emotion causes dramatic weakening of muscles

Waking from YEARS of Coma (a real-life Rip Van Winkle)

Terry Wallis

Pain Unsensitivity

The Torture King

Tim Cridland

Cold Unsensitivty

Wim Hof

Lung Capacity (Deep Diving Ability)

Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome

Sarah Carmen

Michelle Thompson

Lipodystrophy (rapidy body fat usage)

Mr Perry

Allergic to Clean Water

Ashleigh Morris

Aquagenic Urticaria

Ipex Syndrome

immune system won't shut off

body attacks itself

Toby Ellis

Uncured Hiccups

Chris Sands

Dystonia (uncured cramping & twitching)

some sufferers get cramps of the throat limiting/preventing speech

some sufferers' eyes uncontrollably blink or remain shut

Tourette's Syndrome

unvoluntary twitches, tics, and verbal outbursts

unvoluntary swearing

Xeroderma Pigmentosum

no UV damage recovery

must stay out of sun to live

Abby Perkins-Banks

Alien hand syndrome

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

Eye

Routine Eye Swell/Shuting

Natalie Adler

+/- Color Vision

Tetrachromacy (Super Color Vision)

tetrachromacy

Color Blindness

dichromacy

brain damage

Color blindness caused by BRAIN DAMAGE

Cerebral achromatopsia

Colorblind Painter

Jonathan I.

Crossed Eyes

Strabismus

Blepharospasm

Uncontrollable blinking

+/- Fingers/Toes

Webbed Toe

Polydactyly

baby boy from Leizhou, Guangdong 16 toes

"dragon girl" 12 fingers/toes

Lobster Claw Syndrome

Ostrich People of Zimbabwe

ectrodactyly

Pinhead

microcephaly

Zip the Pinhead

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

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

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

Butterfly Girl (Butterfly Children)

Epidermolysis Bullosa

Adana Forsyth

skin and internal linings blister and peel at slightest touch

Immortal Cells

cells from Henrietta Lacks

cells divide indefinitely (thus never affected by age)