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		britta on April 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners A number of people lead normal lives with hearts on the right sides of their bodies - there is dextrocardia (just the heart reversed) and situs inversus with dextrocardia (most internal organs reversed). Pretty neat.

jeroen on April 2, 2012 [–]

To make the picture complete there is also situs inverses incompletus, which means that everything but the heart is mirrored.

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