INQUIRER.net Stock Photo
While cases of supernumerary penises are already extremely rare, the case of a boy from Iraq has been making headlines for being the first-ever human recorded to have three penises.
This unprecedented case of triphallia (three penises) was published via the last year but has lately been gaining traction online.
Researchers noted that supernumerary penises is an “extremely rare congenital anomaly which affects one in every 5 to 6 million live births.”
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case with three penises or triphallia,” Doctors Shakir Saleem Jabali and Ayad Ahmad Mohammed said in the case report.
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
The case of the child, a native Kurd from Duhok city, was uncovered after his parents looked for help after noticing left-sided scrotal swelling and two skin projections in the perineum.
The first one was about 2 cm long with a glans and was attached to the root of the penis. The second supernumerary penis, meanwhile, was about 1 cm long and was found below the scrotum.
