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...toes had rudiments of nails. As Barbara Stobie went to her bed in a ward Pathologist Warren Clair Hunter of the University of Oregon medical school took the monstrous fetus to his laboratory to learn what was inside (a three months job) and to guess at how the brother ovum, from which it developed got inside the embryo which became Barbara Stobie 13 months...
...have graduated from the class of biological sideshow freaks into a more normal human status. Like their tiny little bodies which Medicine helped to grow, their inner natures have now developed to the point where character and personality are distinguishable. Biologically they are not identical Quintuplets (from one subdivided ovum) but fraternal ones (from five separate eggs). The 750,000 visitors* who will look in at them during the 1937 tourist season, may value the following third birthday data on what they...
...more phlegmatic Simplicio trailed backward. Simplicio habitually slept on his right side, Lucio on his left. Thus Lucio's heart had more work to do at night than Simplicio's, a fact which may have contributed to their differences, for being identical twins, product of the same ovum, they should have been mirror images of each other...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...
TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...