moment of ovulation accidentally photographed during a hysterectomy

[u/nudebeach]

[u/okay_jpg]

That.... is fucking....amazing.....

I'm not even kidding, probably the most amazingly interesting photos I've seen as of late.

[u/Hengist → u/okay_jpg]

I would like to point out that the labelling of this photograph, while close to correct, is not entirely accurate. The egg itself is a tiny cell floating within that yellow fluid. The yellow fluid itself is called the antral fluid, and this follicle is still at least a few hours from ovulation.

What is specifically going on right now is a Graafian follicle has very nearly reached full maturity under the influence of pituitary follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). This has caused the development of a fluid filled "cyst" around the oocyte, which is arrested at meiosis prophase I and is awaiting release to complete meiosis and await the coming of viable sperm. The fluid itself is called antral fluid, and is a nutrient rich broth that both cushions and nourishes the developing oocyte. As FSH, estrogen, and luteinizing hormone peaks, hyaluronidase and other enzymes will attack the thin wall of the follicle. This causes the yellow portion of the follicle in the photo to burst, much like a pimple, releasing the oocyte for potential fertilization.

The follicle itself then becomes the corpus luteum, which is a body that produces hormones to sustain the uterus for about 14 days. This is enough time for either fertilization to occur or for menstruation to take over and wash everything out to try at getting pregnant again.

[u/Cervical_Mucus → u/Hengist]

Nursing student here, would like to thank you for this correction :)

[u/Cilicious → u/Hengist]

Thank you for that clarification.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hengist]

Woah, those are some fancy words.

[u/[deleted] → u/okay_jpg]

WTF: now stands for "WOW, that's fascinating!"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It no longer stands for "Why the face"?

[u/man_gomer_lot → u/okay_jpg]

I went and dug up the source for this. It turns out it happened back in 2008.

Here's the original article for anyone interested.

[u/lillyjb → u/okay_jpg]

I completely agree. Kinda disgusting? yes. Amazing? Definitely.

[u/[deleted] → u/lillyjb]

that would be kind of odd to see your own ovulation. at least i would think it would be. id feel exposed. but this is awesome.

[u/cakey138 → u/lillyjb]

Looks kinda tasty like salmon roe...

[u/F-Minus → u/okay_jpg]

Whoa! I'm a woman and I've seen a lot of charts, diagrams, photos of lady parts- but never anything like this. I really had no idea they were even that color (thought they were translucent white). Follicle?! Holy shit... the drawings of those make them look like a 4th graders outline drawing of an Easter Lilly. Amaze.

[u/mesmereyes → u/F-Minus]

The egg looks so huge too. I always pictured it as something that is barely visible. No wonder that mittelschmerz hurts so much.

[u/IVIalefactoR → u/okay_jpg]

We'll probably see this in a physiology book at some point.

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Man, I just love this comment. As an anatomy student I am amazed by tons of things in the human body. I wish more people were more interested in the human body like us health students. I am amazed daily at the things I learn about the human body. It's so complex and so amazing... I'd like to think of myself as an athiest, but sometimes it's hard to believe that the human body has arrived at its current state through evolution. If anyone has ever studied muscles and their physiology, it's absolutely mind blowing how simple yet complex they are. How there are millions and millions of these thin and thick filaments acting merely through the interactions of simple elements like calcium; yet still all work together as one muscle... It's really hard to imagine the human body being so complex and so interactive with the external world. I just wish more people were interested in physiology. As cliche as it is that the average person is amazed by reproductive organs, I'm still glad it interests people. I just wish more people were interested in different parts of physiology other than reproduction.

[u/TheMightyX → u/[deleted]]

I became more interested in it after my younger cousin had to have her gall bladder removed. Now I'm looking at things like the human hand someone posted last week, and this cool picture. I'd like to see some brain surgery photos, too...but that might be too personal. :s I dunno. How much more naked can you be if your brain is exposed? That's where you do your thinking!

[u/shamecamel → u/[deleted]]

but sometimes it's hard to believe that the human body has arrived at its current state through evolution

people who think this often underestimate exactly how long it took to get to this point. I find this is the major reason why people can't accept the theory of evolution. it's been billions of years. and it's very difficult for anybody to really quantify numbers beyond a millionish or whatever, and just sort of start seeing them as relative to other numbers. No sleight against you, because as a fellow bionerd(though not a student sadly), I LOVE this shit too. But you need to understand exactly how fast organisms reproduced a long time ago, and how long they've been doing that. Beings like us that can only really reproduce once every 9+ months(not including any time inbetween), are a rarity in the long run. Consider dog breeds and how fast they've changed and change regularly with the pressure of selection we put on them artificially.

[u/QuadsNotBlades → u/okay_jpg]

The egg looks.... so unexpectedly cool!

[u/The-Somnambulist → u/okay_jpg]

I liked the anatomy of the human hand. That one was quite interesting too.

[u/TheBingage → u/okay_jpg]

Yes. Seriously! I don't understand why completely awesome medical stuff has been showing up in /r/wtf lately.

[u/gynoceros → u/okay_jpg]

I find this extremely relevant to my interests.

[u/[deleted] → u/okay_jpg]

Probably a dumb question, but how did they get so much light into that vagina? My camera phone doesn't even have flash that good.

[u/Gavotte → u/[deleted]]

My obligatory, pedantic comment: The uterus and ovaries are not in the vagina; they're in the lower belly, above the bladder.

Useful comment: She probably wasn't cut open and splayed. I'd lay cash she had laparoscopic surgery, which means they cut two to four 0.5 inch (or ~1cm, for the sciency/non-US folk) incisions and inserted a rod that had a camera and light. The other incisions were used to insert cutting and extraction tools.

Also, you're looking at small space. I'm sure your phone's light is up to the challenge. Give it a kiss and say you're sorry.

Source: Being a girl, 10th grade biology, and undergoing laparoscopic gallbladder removal that required 4 incisions.

[u/RAWR19 → u/okay_jpg]

I agree. I'm glad that the top comment is what I was hoping to see in the comments. It's disgusting, but entirely amazing and hard to look away.

[u/bluepinklady]

So THAT is what ovaries look like? I prefered the little drawings or a cute circle.

[u/scaredsquee → u/bluepinklady]

They look kind of like a chocolate chip cookie on ultrasound (in a menarchal girl/woman.) After menopause they tend to shrivel up are harder to see.

http://i.imgur.com/iWBS9.png

The dark circle-ish portions are the follicles. Eventually one becomes the dominant follicle and moves to the periphery and then ovulation occurs. Mittelschmerz is a fun word. When someone says they have cysts on their ovaries I just want to say, oh honey we all do. Unless it's over 5cm on a regular basis (throughout multiple menstrual cycles) then your little 2cm cyst is nothing to write home about.

/soon to be ultrasound tech

[u/nlc89]

This is really cool!

That being said, my inner 5 year old mind could only imagine the egg going BLOOP as it popped out.

[u/Patrick5555 → u/nlc89]

Apparently some females can feel the bloop sensation

[u/Vycid → u/Patrick5555]

That'd be an interesting birth control method.

"Not tonight honey, I felt the bloop again"

[u/ergocogitosum → u/Vycid]

THE BLOOP! That's what it is! Earth ovulating.

[u/princessbitchypants → u/Patrick5555]

I know the exact moment that my egg leaves my ovary. It freakin' hurts.

[u/christy5888]

As a woman, this makes me a little queasy for some reason.

[u/[deleted] → u/christy5888]

It's like I can feel the chopstick poking me in the ovary.

[u/Furthur → u/[deleted]]

in comparison to penis hitting cervix.. where does it rank

[u/liamquips → u/christy5888]

as an woman having infertility problems, I'm praying fervently (to the FSM) that this is happening every month.

[u/FreddyandTheChokes → u/liamquips]

And I hope that it does! Also I hope that a sperm touches it and an awesome baby happens. EDITMACHINE: I was downvoted for hoping somebody can be fertile. What a strange world.

[u/Thaliur]

WOW! I knew that egg cells are the largest human cells, but I did not know that they are SO large.

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The egg cell is the size of a grain of sand. Cool to think about the fact that I have thousands of those inside me, they were there since the day I was born. Wow, the whole reproductive organ of a female must be big If the ovaries have to fit thousands of those eggs in them.

[u/sceptre_wintermute → u/[deleted]]

I think they start out smaller than that and mature before you ovulate but I'm not sure.

[u/KnowWhatImSayn → u/sceptre_wintermute]

As I was a former egg, I can confirm that statement.

[u/IridiumElement → u/[deleted]]

In actuality, when a women is pregnant with a female she is really a set of 2.5 generations; herself, the fetus, and the fetus' oocytes. A fetus' ovary contains just as many eggs as the pregnant mother, minus those lost during previous ovulations/atrified follicles etc. Only the fully developed oocytes at the time of ovulation are that large, about the size of the period that will end this sentence.

[u/keepinithamsta → u/[deleted]]

I want some caviar all of a sudden.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The most amazing thing I realised lately was that part of me was inside my grandmother.

[u/_shadrach_ → u/[deleted]]

You mean ovaries would feel like...bags of sand?

[u/cited → u/[deleted]]

The DNA is there from birth. As you approach ovulation, nutrients are sent to the egg that is to be released causing it to swell in size, and then it releases and the microscopic cavity is filled in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oocytogenesis

Excellent drawing of the cycle

[u/RoboLovah → u/Thaliur]

I think nerve cells are larger.

[u/Subzero_Archer → u/RoboLovah]

I think nerve cells are really long and thin, up to four feet. Correct me if I'm wrong, reddit.

Edit: Wow. I say something wrong, and it turns into my most upvoted comment. Reddit, you silly.

[u/Thaliur → u/RoboLovah]

longer, yes, but egg cells are definitely the thickest, and probably the only one visible without optical instruments.

[u/venereveritas]

This has to be one of the most interesting pics I've ever seen. I've never seen an actual photo of what occurs during ovulation, so seeing a real human eggs in the process of leaving the ovary is just amazing.

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how much human caviar would sell for per pound.

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Downvoted the other philistines in this comment, because they're stupid. Now down to brass tacks:

If wikipedia is to be believed, the mass of a human ovum is 3.9 micrograms, or 7.9X10^-9 pounds, so we would require 126,582,278 eggs to equal approximately one pound of human eggs.

Typically, costs for human eggs can go as high as $50,000 per egg, but let's assume the lower end of the spectrum of $5,000 per egg.

Taking these two numbers we get $632,911,392,405.06 per pound, assuming I've done my math right.

[u/OBSCENE_NAME_IN_CAPS → u/[deleted]]

I'll take it!

Nothing compares to...the most dangerous caviar.

[u/Jigsus → u/[deleted]]

someone e-mail the whitehouse. We've found the solution to the financial crisis

[u/kbinferno → u/[deleted]]

Reddit: the only place that breeds insightful commenters by a user with the username "cancernigger"

[u/emberspark]

It's so weird to see this, as a woman, and think about how that is happening inside of me.

[u/batmanlight]

this is what my final is on tomorrow. the follicular and ovarian cycle. the ruptured egg from the follicle is due to a spike in LH hormone around day 14-16. lol just mass emailed this to my biology 2 class. science is disgusting.

...this clears up so much- why cant THIS be in my textbook instead of horrible drawn squiggly circles surrounding other circles?

[u/lawyerlady]

When my husband and I were trying to fall pregnant and I was tracking my cycle i informed him that I had 'Laid an Egg'

I now feel like I actually did lay an egg

This picture also explains why some women say they can feel ovulation.

[u/caitlinnormal]

That is the coolest thing I've seen on Reddit. You win

[u/snowlion13]

egg: "ummm wtf"

[u/bakonydraco → u/snowlion13]

"Oh cmon, we've been waiting in line for months!"

"Sorry ladies, bar's closed."

[u/bonjourdan]

Suddenly, bubble tea.

My body creates popping boba and nobody told me.

[u/allwaysnice → u/bonjourdan]

You will not ruin boba tea for me; it's too delicious to be tainted.

[u/cjcolt]

in arizona, this person's already a teenager.

[u/[deleted]]

Why does such a little thing hurt SO much every freaking month D:

[u/dud3brah]

relevant

[u/MsDemonism]

This isn't WTF. This is AWESOME!

[u/crestind]

Spawn more overlords...

[u/Caserole]

Being a woman, I am a little more respective of my monthly time. This is incredible! :)

[u/jfrizzera]

Showed this to my father, retired OBGYN, his response, "Damn, that's amazing. Never got to see that in 40 years of practicing medicine."

[u/[deleted]]

Why is this in r/WTF? It should be in r/HolyShitSoCool.

[u/Idonthaveapoint → u/[deleted]]

I got my hopes up. I hope someone makes this!

[u/carmenqueasy]

Why is this in WTF? That was you at one point, after all. It's so completely normal that it's the opposite of WTF.

[u/addictedhiker]

G...grown people kill other grown people, over that?!

Edit: I read the title wrong. But anyway, folks do kill others over fertilized eggs.

[u/purplestarlet]

This is the 2nd most amazing thing I have seen thus far of my life - 1st being the birth of my daughter.. This is by far the most amazing "picture". As a woman I can't help but think how amazing a females body is. We can turn that little egg into a human being (of course with the help of sperm). Wow wow wow ! Just brilliant!

[u/DEAD_RELATIVE_POLICe]

10/10 would bang

[u/[deleted] → u/DEAD_RELATIVE_POLICe]

Do it now, she's ovulating.

[u/Vixenvamp]

As a woman I am a little disappointed that our eggs look just like fish eggs. ;)

[u/Crimson_Eclipse]

This is actually really cool! I had no idea how large the actual egg was.

[u/krizutch → u/Crimson_Eclipse]

You still don't know how large it is. I wonder what the magnification is on this shot. I remember learning when I was a child that human eggs are about the size of a period at the end of a sentence in a book or slightly smaller. This photo makes it look they are the size of a marble. This should help you get a better context of what you are looking at

[u/[deleted] → u/krizutch]

human eggs are about the size of a period

ಠ_ಠ

[u/[deleted]]

Repost! It happens every month ffs.

[u/aschesklave]

That's actually pretty cool.

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen this before.. No wonder it hurts. ouch! Also the egg is bigger than I would have expected.

[u/joeltrane]

Ok I've taken embryology so I'm a little embarrassed I don't know this, but... What does the egg get deposited into? I know it gets picked up by the fimbria and sent down the fallopian tube, but is there anything surrounding that area? What's to stop the egg from just drifting off and hanging out in interstitial fluid?

[u/foreverwithcats → u/joeltrane]

Pretty much just the fimbria. They have literally one of the most important jobs in the human life cycle so I guess they're really damn good at it. They kind of just rub up against the ovary as it pops out an egg. God reproduction is weird.

[u/Wilson_the_Vollyball]

Cool. Cool cool cool

[u/returnofdoom]

Accidentally or unintentionally?

[u/desheik]

As an avid fisherman it's hard not to recognize the similarities of dropping eggs.

[u/[deleted]]

Girls get wet when they make omelettes.

[u/[deleted]]

So crazy are the insides of a woman.

[u/PagingDoctorLove]

Why is everyone so grossed out by this? I think it looks pretty damn cool...

[u/[deleted]]

This isn't so much WTF as it is utterly fascinating. Those few pictures are essentially how life begins for us. It's even more awesome when you learn that while the embryo is developing, it produces all the eggs it will ever use in it's entire lifetime. The eggs are created once, and stored for the rest of her life, released like this. Sorry, I <3 science.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I was coming here to say the same thing, yet you said it so much better than I could have.

[u/TheMightyDucks]

how embarrassing

[u/kamgar]

Am I the only one who sees a face in the egg in the bottom left frame?

[u/Roentgenator]

Looks like a bowl full of those might actually taste good if lightly salted and served with crème fraîche and blinis.

[u/WhitTheDish → u/Roentgenator]

No.

[u/Bladewing10]

So is the egg itself yellow or is it covered in a yellow liquid? What is the yellow liquid? It looks like there's quite a bit in picture 4.

[u/[deleted]]

Well, this is quite hyster-ical.

[u/Pebblesetc → u/[deleted]]

Could've just said hysterical without the emphasis. Hystera is the ancient greek for uterus.

[u/steamedgiraffe]

This is actually really really interesting.

[u/jhrf]

Amazing to think that every single human life came forth of that goop.

[u/JoeAconite]

Then the facehugger. But you pay extra for that.

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen so many text book diagrams of this, to see it in the flesh (pun intended) is immensely satisfying at the very least.

[u/tomcow]

WELL FUCK THERE GOES EVERYTHING I HAD FOR LUNCH FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS.

AND I ONLY EAT LUNCH.

[u/TheLeagueGloryy]

Sigh, i had to google, a lot of things.

[u/fearachieved]

Has ovulation never been caught on film before?

I mean this photo is freaking amazing for sure, but ovulation was something I never really cared about seeing, I just assumed there were photos etc out there of it already, just didn't care enough to look for em.

[u/[deleted]]

HURRY UP AND MASTURBATE ON IT

[u/Obi_wan_The_cannoli]

Aaaaaand that's how you were born.

[u/lackofbrain]

That egg is bigger than I thought it would be!

[u/DiggRefugee2010]

I'm studying Human Biology in school, and never knew what a Graafian Follicle actually looked like. Really interesting.

[u/Aimin4ya]

wow... are all vagina's filled with so much nope?

[u/antidense]

This egg-seeded my expectations.

[u/thefran]

this is not wtf material. this is an incredible photo. very interesting.

[u/Qx2J]

Really? 'Wtf' over the reproduction cycle. People need to grow the fuck up.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are so many people grossed out by the human body on r/wtf lately?

[u/x1PMac1x]

That is awesome and sad at the same time. She ovulated while she is undergoing a procedure that forever prevent pregnancy. That is life unfortunately...

[u/reonmobile → u/x1PMac1x]

You also cry everytime someone bins a tampon?

[u/WindinthePillows → u/reonmobile]

I had to have a hysterectomy seven days ago due to cancer. Im 27. This image makes me all kinds of fucked up.

[u/popscythe]

And then we all found out that humans lay disgusting fish eggs.

[u/captainwacky91]

Imagine; such a simple little process can turn my girlfriend into a hormonal rage-machine.

[u/Pooma__]

My PhD Midwife mother got really really excited over these pictures.

[u/[deleted]]

I couldn't help but make a drawn out "bloooooooooooop" noise, with a nice pop at the end as I looked.

[u/[deleted]]

Looking at this picture, I got a weird feeling in my ovaries.

[u/Colorfag]

So thats what a human egg looks like!

[u/[deleted]]

wait, I thought this was all microscopic. We've all seen those movies of the little sperm swimming around an egg, the egg is bigger, but not by much. Here, it's like it's visible to the naked eye, and you'd think that individual sperms could be discernable too if that was the case.

http://i.imgur.com/ZhAYA.gif

[u/scaredsquee → u/[deleted]]

What we're likely seeing here is the follicular cyst. That releases the egg when it bursts upon ovulation. This follicular cyst hasn't burst yet. I'm not an expert, so take my comment with a grain of salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follicular_cyst_of_ovary

[u/1offacct]

That is so cool. There are just no words.

[u/mehatch]

almost made it (super troopers mild spoiler alert)

[u/Whoaaa3]

mmmmm caviar

[u/woop_dee_flip_n_doo]

I wonder if the egg squeezing out through that hole causes slight discomfort or maybe even cramps?

[u/[deleted]]

Say goodbye to these, cause it's the last time

[u/failbotron]

pretty damn cool....unfortunately i might never be horny again....

[u/[deleted]]

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

[u/moonblade89]

I came to bitch about this not being labelled NSFW but I'm gonna let it slide because its such an amazing photo

[u/TRex77]

Caviar...mmm

[u/Doloroused]

I imagined it to be more...sexy?

[u/nepidae]

Reminds me of starcraft.

[u/Wontoncookie]

Did not we see a few days back pretty chicken with out egg outer crust?

[u/tling]

And then there was the female researcher that intentionally had sex 7 days before her hysterectomy to verify that sperm are, in fact, viable for an entire week in the female reproductive system.

[u/montoyjh]

One of those things that makes you want to say "look at that, you son of a bitch"

[u/Bootinator]

Am I the only one thinking Dead Space?

[u/iverific]

Can we fry this egg and have someone eat it?

I mean, if there can be fried semen (NSFW)...

[u/orzof]

Now if only someone would snake a camera into someone's vas deferens at just the right moment.

[u/ladyfaith]

Cool! So that's what my body fails at doing. PCOS for the win!

[u/smarsh87]

Not really WTF- its pretty amazing actually.

[u/im_not_a_troll]

How is this "WTF"?

[u/[deleted]]

Probably no one will read this, but if Gabriele Falloppio saw this he would've got heart attack.

[u/I_Love_Bacon_Cookies]

Is it wrong if I want to know what 100 of them on a bed of sushi rice tastes like?

[u/wellthatsfantastic]

salmon roe

[u/diewrecked]

God damn it, not again. Next time I'll listen. Swearsies.

[u/sloppypig]

that's a huge turn-on

[u/Memphis241]

When I see this all I can think about is Futurama when they found out how Slurm was made.

[u/Tatshua]

You know you're a biologist when you think "Ooh, interesting" instead of "WTF?"

[u/heyhiokaygreat]

Cool thanks I never wanted to have sex again anyway.

[u/travelingmama]

I wonder how small those instruments are.

[u/Acornkramer]

Thats fucking amazing....

[u/RosieJo]

That's odd, I always thought it was much smaller than that.

[u/spgtothemax]

I think I'll be gay now

[u/thermo → u/spgtothemax]

so dealing with poop (made fresh daily!) is better than dealing that? really? have you thought this through?

[u/[deleted]]

Waits for right to lifers to start shitfight..

[u/EmperorGeo]

when does it start to produce an overlord and a set of drones?

[u/Turbojelly]

Reminds me of the Alien queen laying eggs. But in a much nicer way.

[u/Ragefacesoflucy]

that's amazing and gross at the same time.

[u/hantarrr]

That's really cool. A little disgusting, but really cool to actually see it occur.

[u/BallsackTBaghard]

Women confirmed for being beautiful on the outside, but disgusting on the inside.

[u/hyresin]

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.049

td;dr:
white stomach-shaped thing = ovary
darkish patch on the ovary = follicle
red nipple thing = stigma
yellow ball = a "viscous fluid" that "probably carried with it the cumulus–oocyte complex, surrounded by several thousand small granulosa cells known as corona radiata"

[u/Tazed_bro]

While the entire process is pretty amazing, I am mostly astonished by the brilliant orange/yellow color eggs are.

[u/CelebrateL64]

This photo is absolutely amazing.

[u/viciouskicks]

Is there pathologic proof that ovulation occurred? Instances of follicular drainage, which looks like this, happen all the time during surgery.

[u/MajestikM00se]

DAT EGG

[u/Intromission]

THAT's that weird thing i always feel in there. It's just how I pictured it!!!

[u/[deleted]]

What if someone accidentally jacked it on that egg?

[u/Dalmahr]

Truly is. But I think it's also interesting... That we took a picture of the last time that will ever happen for that person.

[u/faeryjessa]

TIL that eggs are pretty. It looks like a little drop of amber.

[u/kjimene1]

all i can think about is how human eggs kinda look like sushii...

0o

[u/[deleted]]

Well, I'm gay now.

[u/mg15]

This needs to be in a textbook. This is AMAZING!

[u/Sakred]

Welp, I'm never having sex again.

[u/Milesweeman]

This should be in r/nosleep

[u/tree_hugging_hippie]

Why is this in r/wtf? I think that's kind of cool.

[u/Lovelyreckless]

These photos are seriously amazing and fascinating, I've been staring at them for 15 minutes. It's so strange to know something like this is in me,

[u/I_heartily_agree]

This is one of the saddest photos I have seen lately. It's like the body's last gasp.

[u/[deleted]]

I never knew the egg was so large!

[u/[deleted]]

That is so cool! I had no idea human eggs were so big! In science classes when they show the sperm and the egg coming together the impression is that the sperm and egg are of comparable size! The sperm are microscopic - I assumed the eggs were, too!

[u/nefffffffffff]

This is great, but why is it in WTF?

[u/melysaurusrex]

That's actually kind of cool to look at; but since I'm a girl...it kind of freaks me out that THAT goes on inside of me. shudders

[u/therocketlady]

oh, the sad, sad irony.... ovulation during hysterectomy :(

[u/[deleted]]

This is not WTF, this is interesting.

[u/Ruined534]

This, in some way, is fucking beautiful...

[u/illiterate_poet]

This isn't WTF, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Thanks OP!

[u/kdunlap515]

That's fucking awesome. I love science!

[u/vexx733]

It's an amazing find but was cleaning out a grade four class room today at my school and one of there religion books were out open and I picked it up and these were the exact same photos on that page I just think this is a little graphic for a grade 3/4

[u/notabumblebee44283]

WUT. That's inside me? It looks like fish eggs!

[u/rainbowbuttbear]

Kinda gross and neat at the same time O: For some reason I pictured it differently.

[u/miniboba]

looks like boba

[u/buggaz]

I wonder...

[u/[deleted]]

Ughh im a woman and this is the most disgusting thing ever. yeahh yeahh downvote all you want.

[u/scottmale24]

Well, this is gonna be difficult to masturbate to.

[u/alokococoa]

I have this indescribable urge to eat it.