Researchers from the University of Birmingham Medical School were left dumbfounded after discovering three penises in the body of a 78-year-old man who had seemingly died oblivious to the rare condition. According to a report by the Independent, his genitals were six inches long and looked normal from the outside, but scientists conducted a closer investigation and discovered two smaller penises within his scrotal sac, one of which was connected to the same urethra as the main penis.“Two small supernumerary penises stacked in a sagittal orientation postero inferiorly to the primary penis. Each penile shaft displayed its own corpora cavernosa and glans penis. The primary penis and largest and most superficial of the supernumerary penises shared a single urethra, which coursed through the secondary penis prior to its passage through the primary penis. A urethra-like structure was absent from the smallest supernumerary penis,” researchers said in a paper submitted to the Journal of Medical Case Reports.The researchers explained that the urethra initially formed in the secondary penis but shifted to the primary one when the secondary one failed to develop. “The urethra originally developed in the secondary penis, however, when this penis failed to develop, the urethra diverted its course and developed in the primary penis instead. The tertiary penis is a remnant of the triplicated genital tubercle.”Reportedly, one in six million male babies are estimated to be born with two penile shafts-- a condition referred to as diphallia.Triphallia is an even rarer genetic anomaly that causes a male baby to have three distinct penile shafts. It was previously reported only one other time, in a baby born in Iraq in 2020.
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