Teratology
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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

Hutchinson Guildford Progeria (full name)
Accelerated Aging Effects
average life span is 13 years
Hayley Okines

Lawrence Koomson
Jimmy Scott
defect that causes the pituitary gland and hypothalamus stopping sexual hormone production

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

Pituitary Giantism
Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk
Robert Wadlow
Brenden Adams
7ft 12year old

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

Primordial
thought to be caused by incorrect collagen structure
Alex Connerty
only arms/legs are small; the torso is average sized
Danielle Griffin


Wendy the Incredible Whippet
myostatin-related hypertrophy
?Uberboy born in Germany

KE family
Foreign Language Syndrone


Lightning Man
Roy Cleveland Sullivan
Angelique Cottin
Jennie Morgan
Sedalia, Missouri
Caroline Clare
Canada
Inga Gaiduchenko
Liew Thow Lin

Allergic to Modern Technology
Debbie Bird

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

Yoda the Cat

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

the Half-Man
Johnny Eck
RoseMarie (Rose) Siggins
Sacral Agenesis
deformed legs that were amputated by doctors at a young age

Alison Lapper; Painter
Dustin Carter; Wrestler

Milagros Cerrón
born with legs fused together
genitals are obscured making gender identification hard

Pony Boy

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

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

Genetic Chimerism; having two sets of DNA
mothers can have children who DNA test to be NOT RELATED
Lydia Fairchild
Karen Keegan

born with genital parts of both sexes

Claire Miles
born with two wombs, two cervixes and two vaginas

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

Zahra Aboutalib is the mother
baby remained in body when it's birth was stalled
baby remained in mother's body for 46 years


Lurch the Watusi Bull - Giant horns
Cutaneous Horn
Wang the Human Unicorn
"Unicorn" the one horned roe deer
nature preserve in Italy

hypertrichosis
Werewolf Boy
Pruthviraj Patil
Abys DeJesus
Jesus Fajardo Manuel Aceves


Clumsiness


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 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

Twinkle Dwivedi
clotting disorder

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

associating numbers/letter and colors

can accurately recall images, sounds, or objects from memory

AJ
can remeber any time in the past as if it were recent
stronger than Eidetic 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

Cameron Mott
if brain half is removed early enough, brain can rewire itself to regain full control of body

Lina Medina

Daniel Browning Smith

Tommy McHugh

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

Rathakrishnan Velu

Thai Ngoc
Rhett Lamb
Reflex
Jumping frenchman disorder
cataplexy
Kay Underwood
strong emotion causes dramatic weakening of muscles

Terry Wallis

The Torture King
Tim Cridland

Wim Hof


Sarah Carmen
Michelle Thompson

Mr Perry

Ashleigh Morris
Aquagenic Urticaria

immune system won't shut off
body attacks itself
Toby Ellis

Chris Sands

some sufferers get cramps of the throat limiting/preventing speech
some sufferers' eyes uncontrollably blink or remain shut

unvoluntary twitches, tics, and verbal outbursts
unvoluntary swearing

no UV damage recovery
must stay out of sun to live
Abby Perkins-Banks


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

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

Webbed Toe
Polydactyly
baby boy from Leizhou, Guangdong 16 toes
"dragon girl" 12 fingers/toes
Lobster Claw Syndrome
Ostrich People of Zimbabwe
ectrodactyly

microcephaly
Zip the Pinhead

Crouzon's Syndrome
skull fuses together and refuses to grow anymore; brain must grow in a new direction
Petero Byakatonda


rabies is 100% lethal
Jeanna Giese
put under coma close to death for several days so that body could build antibody response
Milwaukee Protocol

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

Epidermolysis Bullosa
Adana Forsyth
skin and internal linings blister and peel at slightest touch

cells from Henrietta Lacks
cells divide indefinitely (thus never affected by age)