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 International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 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 5–6 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.
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