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Amanda Meyer, Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Pathology, James Cook University

A man lived to old age without knowing he may have had 3 penises

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Do you really know what you look like on the inside? Most people do not, and usually it takes surgery or medical imaging to take a look while we are still alive.

A case study was published last week where researchers made the rare finding of a man with “triphallia”. Most people would say the man had three penises. But anatomists, like myself, who teach health professionals about the structure of the human body, prefer the term penes (plural of penis).

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