Knitted Anatomy

I realize knitting seems a strange hobby for a doctor, more unusual than playing the harpsichord or growing prize-winning bonsai. But I've found a knitting project that would fit a physician like a surgeon's glove: a knitted uterus.

MK Carroll designed and photographed this uterus. She explains, "It's not completely anatomically accurate. I've taken a few liberties with the general shape and scale, as well as leaving out the ligaments connected to the ovaries. And, of course, the human uterus is not normally bubblegum pink."

Is it just me, or does that uterus look gravid? Maybe there's a little knit fetus in there, with a cabled umbilical cord.

That's a beginner project. Here's the entire digestive system:

This was designed and photographed by arrmatie.

What do you do with that? Give it to your gastroenterologist for Christmas? Let your kids cuddle with it? Set it out on your coffee table for a conversation starter?

Thanks to the Internet, there's a pattern out there for every, and I do mean every, piece of human anatomy. I can't be more specific or I'll attract the wrong kind of traffic.

Maybe I'll do up some angora CD4 cells to go with that HIV Plushie. 

Comments

[Diana]

i'd like a gallbladder for my birthday please! it'd make a lovely brooch, and it does, after all, store 'byl'. tee hee. where do you find this stuff?

[Martina]

I personally think a gallbladder would be a bit much for a brooch. A simple gallstone would be better; more subtle. Would that be okay?

Where do I find this stuff? I come across it in my Internet travels and bookmark it for future reference. Sometimes friends send me links.

[Diana]

could you knit me a small pool of bile? i want the brooch to be representative of me somehow. though admitedly, knitted gallstones not only would make fabulous brooches, but lovely christmas ornaments too.

btw,, this post is in my top three. it almost tops the hairball...

[Tessa]

My gallbladder went "missing" almost 2 1/2 years ago now... never thought of replacing it with a knitted variety, but that is definately on my Christmas wish list now!!

[Kerri.]

As someone who's been living with type 1 diabetes for over two decades, I'd love to see a knitted pancreas. ;)

Great work - very interesting!

[Erin]

Oh dude, I love the stitch pattern on the pancreas. That's way more pancreas-like than mine (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirinqueen/414694239/ I pretty much made up the shape, too, partly so it would fit my size restrictions). I think I'll have to make a new one.

[Amalas]

I've knit a pancreas! You can check it out here: http://plasticpancreas.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/knit-pancreas-and-other-organs/