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* Teratomas... just... teratomas. Think of a tumor, but composed of some of the fundamental parts of the human body, which includes bone, hair, and even teeth. Even worse, they sometimes contain brain, liver, and lung tissues, as well as half-formed legs, eyes and even HANDS.
* Fossy jaw and its 'brother' Radium jaw. *deep shudder*
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* This troper got to treat her mom's foot ulcers from Pyodermagangrenosa. (Look it up.) The scars looked like shark bites. Yup.
* Look up the highly controversial "[
** That's because it's only recently been termed a "disease", and these symptoms are used by patients with psychological problems who have delusions of parasitic infestation. It's still a very vague condition.
*** Elaborating on above: Patient scratches skin until it breaks; fibers from clothing become trapped in forming clot; patient concludes fibers emerged from skin. See the [
* [http://documentaryheaven.com/the-perfect-vagina/ Vaginal cosmetic surgery.] Horror. Sheer horror.
* Puberty, lived as a [[
** And even worse, there are some transsexual teenagers who are unable to do things like binding their breasts and stuffing their crotch (male) like in [[Boys Don't Cry]] or wear a stuffed bra and either bind the crotch or wear skirts to hide the bulge (female) so they could at least cope with the [[Body Horror]] until they could access hormones and surgery. Just think, there are thousands of teens in this situation who are going through the wrong kind of puberty and a great number of these can't use any of the coping mechanisms available for fear that they will be committed to mental hospitals, kicked out of their house, be rejected by their friends and family, or even be harmed/killed for what they are. Sweet dreams.
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** Albert Sabin, who developed oral vaccine for polio, had a variety of this. He said the pain was so terrible that he wanted to die. When he was cured, he devoted the rest of his life to relieving pain, which he said should be the first goal of medical science.
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** Anencephaly is a condition where the neural tube (that forms all of the central nervous system, that is the spinal cord and brain) fails to close properly at the head and the brain never develops fully as a result. Babies with this condition rarely make it to full term, and if they are born they die in a matter of days.
*** That's even worse. Think about it. That means it was living without a brain after being born. It's just... kinda sitting there, with the heart pumping to nothing in the head.
**** Is it weird that this troper was reminded of E.T when they looked at the picture?
* The way severe [
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** As someone who lives in a heavily fly-infested part of the country, thank you so much. I'm never watering my lawn again.
** Fortunately, it's still much more common in animals than in humans. And treatable.
* Cancer that has gone out of control before being discovered. Think of this: your body has started to rot before you die, and it was too late when you realized this. Now the only treatments available (if not too late) are just as horrible and invasive as the disease, with a high rate of mortality and probably less parts of your body. If you survive, you have to be careful because cancer can spread through your body...ANY part of it. There's a reason why everybody is always encouraging people to get periodical examination, people...
** Even cancer that hasn't gone out of control yet can be pretty Body Horror-ish. Imagine having a mass of cells inside your body that grows uncontrollably, is programmed to ''never naturally die'', can travel through your lymphatic system and take root in places other than where it appeared, and can only be stopped by surgically removing it, bombarding it with radiation or subjecting your entire body to rather poisonous drugs. Stuff of nightmares, it is.
* The Russian street drug Krokodil, a poor-man's substitute for heroin, causes users to literally rot alive. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408143130/http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/russias-disgusting-new-drug-epidemic-krokodil Video link, click at your own risk.]
** It's called so because after a prolonged abuse the skin in the place of injection starts turning green and scaly.
* Guinea worms. If you drink any water from a river or stream in certain parts of Africa, you can swallow guinea worm larvae which will literally ''hatch and grow inside your body.'' Guinea worms love to pop out of the skin, mostly at extremities, when they grow large enough. The only treatment is to very, very slowly pull the worms out. This is very painful and can take days. Luckily efforts by health groups has almost eradicated guinea worm except for parts of Africa.
* The [
* Abscesses. The only ones worse that the ones that get bigger and bigger and bigger are the ones that don't, because they ''rupture'' and spew putrid toxic pus.
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*** While Merrick is a perfect physical example of this trope, his actual life story reads like a giant [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] after a certain point. Merrick spent a great deal of time as a [[The Grotesque|circus freak]], and when the practice was ultimately outlawed in Europe, he, after having been robbed of his last £50 by a shady manager, would eventually be taken in by a man who had desired to study his condition more closely, Frederick Treves. Rather than treating Merrick as a specimen, he worked to care for the man as a permanent resident of London Hospital. Merrick's case would be spread largely through the actions of Treves and the hospital director, and the resulting outpouring of support from all over London gave him a surprisingly vibrant life, even with the tragic circumstances of his death - due to his deformities, he couldn't sleep lying down because the weight of his head would suffocate him - [[I Just Want to Be Normal|but he tried to do so anyway, and it would be what claimed his life.]]
* Tasmanian Devils are currently severely threatened with extinction by something called Devil Facial Tumor Disease. Essentially, it's ''contagious cancer'', and, as the name implies, the tumors mostly grow on their faces. The results are not pretty.
** The reason this particular cancer affects primarily the face is directly related to the manner of contagion. Contagious agents that cause cancer have been known for decades (specifically, there are viruses that cause cancer). In this case, however, it's the '''cancer itself that's transferred'''. Because Tasmanian Devils bite each other pretty much whenever they meet, and the cells of this cancer are transmissible by bite...
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022055916/http://twentytwowords.com/2011/06/16/what-childrens-skulls-look-like-as-they-prepare-to-lose-their-baby-teeth/ This], at least, is one [[Body Horror]] that most tropers will have ''survived''. (But doesn't it remind you of [[Alien]] in some vaguely disturbing way?)
* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1024&bih=588&q=harlequin%20ichthyosis&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1381l3984l0l6816l9l9l0l0l0l0l654l3438l0.1.4.0.1.3l9l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi Harlequin-type] [
** If you have a vivid imagination, don't look at the second link either.
* The [
** Thanks for making an apparently awesome-looking Pokemon seem like [[Nausea Fuel]] (runs to bathroom).
*** Speaking of Pokemon, silicone is [http://pokememes.memebase.com/2011/09/28/pokmon-ugliest-tattoos-better-not-try-to-catch-em-all/ not just for titties] anymore...
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919203723/http://www.sonoworld.com/fetus/page.aspx?id=2261 Iniencephaly.] [
** It's a baby with a deflated-looking head.
* Necrotizing fasciitis, also known by the cheerful name of flesh-eating virus. This disease does exactly what it sounds like--it causes your flesh to putrefy and rot, while it's still on you. Yum.
* Parasitic fungi in the genus ''Cordyceps'' essentially hijack the host's nervous system, forcing it to climb to the highest point they can, where they cling until they die. The best part comes afterwards, when ''mushrooms sprout from the insect's head'', scattering the spores on the wind in search of their next host.
** What's especially fun to learn after that is that humans often eat those same species of ''Cordyceps'' and also use it to make anti-rejection drugs like Neoral.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19602_6-insane-last-resort-surgeries-that-actually-worked.html
* The Black Plague. Various white swellings that change color, puking blood, a high fever, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the desire to fall asleep]]...yeah.
* [[
** It's also known as "Hoof and Mouth Disease". If left unchecked, it can infect the ''entire head'', and it can survive for ''six months'' in soil.
* Leprosy. Besides [[Grotesque Gallery|the obvious]], imagine having your limbs, even your head, being loose enough to ''literally fall off your body.''
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* Open cardiac massage. How could anything with the term 'massage' in it possibly be bad? Well, its the last thing ER doctors or OR surgeons do to try to save your life if you go into cardiac arrest from a traumatic cause, like being shot. Basically they cut you in half front to back to midway from the front to your spine, and then spread you open, and reach directly into your thoracic (chest) cavity and literally squeeze your heart in an attempt to get it to beat. When air is pushed down into your lungs, inflate outside your body. Sometimes it works.
* Cylindroma, a.k.a. turban tumor syndrome. Imagine horrible, bright red, bulb-like tumors covering your scalp. EEEEEEK.
* Google Cyclopia. It's essentially a malformation that leaves the face with only one eye, a la the cyclops of mythology. Babies born with it usually do not survive.
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* Face-eating bony tumors (like the Tasmanian Devils further up the page)like those suffered by at least two people profiled on TV, a guy from somewhere in Russia and a boy named Novemtree from Indonesia. Imagine your entire face basically being one big tumor because several large ones have taken it over. Yeah.
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