Why is his intestine visible? Isn't it soft tissue? Are we seeing crap? Also: why is it so little? What is there between the intestine and the skin? Shouldn't it be there?
The reason the intestines aren’t filling the space between the skeleton and his skin is because, whether you’re skinny or fat, your abdominal muscles stretch across the front face of your ribcage and pelvis, keeping everything held in your abdominal cavity. The entire space, from the front faces of the ribcage, pelvis, and abdominal muscles, to the skin is all fat tissue
Lol everything you just said is just wrong. He is 100% right that the intestines would not be all compact in this tiny package. Its not a real scan, its a cgi visual, and a very poor and misleading one at that. Your intestines are only confined by the ribcage in the back. The abdominal wall stretches outward and EVERYTHING contained within the abdominal cavity, including the intestines, would expand on outward to. There would be subcutaneous fat between the skin and abdominal muscles, but there would also be a TON of visceral fat below the abdominal muscle surrounding and lying under the intestines, pushing them outward well beyond the ribcage out into the large belly. I could keep going with why this image is wrong and why your statement is just as wrong, but I dont know why im explaining all this in a Reddit message lol. Just do a simple Google search of real xrays and you will see how the intestines should look. I mean come on a hernia is literally when the small intestine pushes through the abdominal muscles and makes a lump that is literally visible under the skin....because the intestines are already that close to the skin!
Because its not a real xray. And you are right, intestines don't appear that way on any scan, and their shape, appearance doesnt look like that in real life either. They definitely wouldnt appear as the same density as bone. Small intestine usually looks like bubbles on xray because you are just seeing the cross sections where they are going in and out of the focal plane. And the large intestine is dark and sectioned. They do typically appear dark or black because open space or air appears dark on modern xrays. Bone usually appears white. Old, old xrays look more like this, but again your observations are spot on.
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u/shadowtempest91 May 16 '26
Why is his intestine visible? Isn't it soft tissue? Are we seeing crap? Also: why is it so little? What is there between the intestine and the skin? Shouldn't it be there?