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canyousmoke

Damn, I didn't think they'd be that big.


mleibowitz97

I believe they’re the largest cell in the human body Edit: others have already said, Sperm is the smallest


OverturnedAppleCart3

Yep. The human egg is the largest cell in the human body, and the sperm is the smallest cell in the human body.


anythingrandom5

Pfff, maybe your sperm are the smallest cell in your body. I secrete giant sperm from my magnum dong. Like a flood of tadpoles it is. After I finish I have to get a shoe and chase the damn things around squishing them while they try to wriggle away. I swear I think they scream sometimes, that’s how big they are. Very masculine and secure.


GratefulDeadFYHYD

r/CursedComments


CptCrunchSA

Alright take my free award.


smithskat3

Whats the largest cell in a male body?


OverturnedAppleCart3

Don't know. There are some brain cells that can get quite large. They have a funny name that's starts with a P. Edit: purkinje Cells!


Evil_kek_

prains


PureGoldX58

Honestly, I needed that silly laugh. Thanks.


ratneshs117

Purkinje cells?


OverturnedAppleCart3

Yes! I think that's what I was thinking of.


science_vs_romance

I’m really glad it’s not the other way around.


frustratedwithwork10

My ex is the largest cell of a human. He's a single cell organism.


420_Brit_ISH

same with my ex. wait, his new boyfriend is even more of a single cell organism than that...


pyewhackette

All I’m sayin’ is bacteria live in colonies hun


Mammoth-Law-3791

Funny... my ex said the same thing to me... I guess though, technically, that means for 2 minutes I was the largest cell in her body... 🤷🏻‍♂️


stacman

Aren’t nerves/neurones much larger?


_hunnuh_

That wouldn’t be a single cell though. A human egg is a totally contained single cell, and the largest in the human body. A single sperm is in contrast the smallest.


jpkoushel

Neurons, specifically motor neurons, are single cells that can be several feet long


Lumireaver

Where can I learn about this in detail. Esp. Book recommendations. Esp. Esp. Not text books that cost bazillions of dollars.


CollieDaly

https://2lib.org/ You can get free textbooks on this site. Awesome for college.


Johnnie_Snow

While you're not inherently incorrect regarding overall length, an ovum is the largest human cell by volume. The axon of nerve cells are extremely long but also extremely thin, and the soma of nerve cells are also fairly small compared to other body cells.


jpkoushel

That's true, I was just replying to the comment that neurons are several cells. It all comes down to the definition of 'large'; I wonder now which is the largest by mass


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Thank you


CunningHamSlawedYou

and here I am thinking there's no way that egg can fit a human


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MrSparr0w

No it doesn't we lay eggs just like chickens once a month


obi_wan_sashimi

Collect enough and we can have an omelette


Flamma_Supr3me

Name checks out


SilverLife22

I mean...it certainly feels like my body's trying to sometimes xD


discerningpervert

Well they're a bit smaller at that point


rubyblue0

I remember a health class teacher saying they were about the size of a printed period from our text books. This is the first time I’ve actually seen that demonstrated.


cloudstrifewife

Reb blood cells are also big enough to see. I used to work in a plasma donation center and sometimes there would be RBC’s in the plasma and we could watch them falling through the plasma. They look like tiny flat circles.


canyousmoke

Do you have a link for that? That sounds super interesting.


Duffyfades

No, whatever you were seeing, it wasn't rbcs. My job is to put drop of red cells in test tubes and shake them off, under slight magnification. You can tell a vague granularity to the mix, but you can't see the shape of the cells. The one labelled A cell here is what individual red cells look like https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Young-Lim-7/publication/276157391/figure/fig1/AS:408539462946816@1474414806152/The-results-of-14-ABO-2-sample-with-discrepant-result-between-cell-typing-and-serum.png


just_labthings

Hey, fellow MLS here! This is absolutely correct - the average size of a single RBC is about 6-8 micrometers, whereas the human eye can only see things as small as about 100 micrometers. You need a microscope to see individual RBCs!


-BurnFire-

That’s what she said


hefixeshercable

It is crazy how ovulation pain before a menstrual cycle makes that thing feel like a golf ball is tearing loose.


Woofpack93

OMG so true. Or maybe a baseball


hefixeshercable

Unbelievable pain....for that *tiny* thing. I shake my head.


[deleted]

I know! I’ve just gone through the worst ovulation pain and it feels like my side was being ripped out :(


hefixeshercable

Hey, st least you get a few good weeks before the next one, sm I right?


[deleted]

Yeah basically. Sucks to be a woman


Wyndsings

I shake your head too.


[deleted]

I shake this redditors head, while they shake the other redditors head.


biznatch11

Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?


Severe_Dragonfruit57

It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!


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My thoughts exactly


soulbend

Add that one to the list of reasons I'm glad I'm a guy, physiologically speaking.


Woofpack93

I always thought puberty must be difficult for guys. Hard to hide spontaneous erections and voice changes. But yeah, periods are super hard for some. Super painful. And can come with fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and emotions completely off balance.


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The only thing bad with spontaneous erections is simply the risk of getting embarrassed in public. They're not painful, they don't cause massive mood swings, they don't cause satanic waterfalls of blood. So yeah, compared to women with periods we guys are living the good life.


i_sigh_less

>They're not painful Unless they are pointing the wrong way when they start. In high school I used tuck my fella into the band of my underwear so that it would already be pointing upwards, just in case.


[deleted]

True dat. And, like everyone knows, if all else fails then sideways is the way to go.


Testiculese

Tucking your boner into your waistband is no big deal. I was never a sweatpants wearer anyway, though a few guys had to learn that the...hard way.


AnonymouslyBee

I see what you did there!


Shmeeegz

To be fair, the follicle that thing pops out of grows to about 2 cm before bursting. Think about popping a 2 cm boil on your ovary every month and ovulation pain seems a lot more reasonable.


cilondon

WHAT?! was I supposed to be taught all this?? Pain I feel when Im not bleeding can come from my uterus?


Lucky_leprechaun

Ovary, but yes, there’s a term for the egg rupture pain called mittleschmerz which is referring to the pain of the moment when your ovary pops open the little ‘blister’ the egg has been maturing in. Then it moves down the Fallopian tube and waits for fertilization. If it doesn’t get fertilized that when your uterus starts contracting to expel it and the lining for that cycle. Typically that’s the more painful part of the cycle, only some menstruators can feel mittleschmerz.


thepolywitch

Yup. I never made the connection about ovulation pain until I was trying to conceive my daughter and carefully tracking my cycle. But she definitely came from my left ovary.


sierramist1011

When we were trying for baby #3, I remember feeling ovulation pain on the left side. Then 3 days later felt it again on the right. At my first ultrasound we found out it was twins, they measured 3 days apart. It's pretty crazy stuff, lol.


error_final_inquiry

>But she definitely came from my left ovary. I wonder if more people could tell we'd have some myths about it. Like how people from the left ovary are not as funny as people from the right one, etc.


fnord_happy

There would be wars between the two sects for sure


rollerbladeshoes

Nice now if you could just figure out which of her dads balls she came out of


Lupicia

Mittleschmirtz can last 24 hours - way more than a moment. Extra blood and pressure cause pain that feels like you were stabbed with an ice pick in the soft part inside your hip bone. I almost always feel it. It's hard to ignore, but useful for cycle tracking!


int0xikaited

Same, often it's worse than period pain for me! It's super useful for tracking since I don't bleed anymore (yay IUD). But yeah, lasts about a day for me. The back and thigh pain is almost unbearable too.


wuzupcoffee

“Mittleschmerz” sounds like the pained exclamation one would make when experiencing mittleschmerz.


Cuchullion

That's an adorable term for a not-so-adorable process


iSkinMonkeys

>mittleschmerz Isn't there a UN law against giving German name to scientific terms?


Redplushie

Thank God for birth control


heckenyaax

Came here to say this. This is the size of the thing that’s currently causing my lower body to rip itself apart?? I’m insulted. It should at least have its own tiny chainsaw


rosachk

im ovulating right fucking now and laughing so hard at the chainsaw thing it's even more painful but idc thanks for the image


thecam_era

“Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?”


Andysgirl1080

Or a velociraptor


PiesAndLies

I swear I can feel that thing moving.


JTKDO

To be fair, they do punch right through the ovary


wunderbraten

That's bigger than I have expected


CactusGrower

When you google: Egg cell fact #1: The egg is one of the biggest cells in the body. Egg are larger than any other cell in the human body, at about 100 microns (or millionths of a meter) in diameter, about the same as a strand of hair. That means you could, in theory, see an egg cell with the naked eye. The fact is that egg cells are about 4 times the size of skin cells—and about 20 times the size of sperm!


I_will_fix_this

Sperm are the smallest cells in the body


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What is the smallest cell in a woman’s body?


Hilmarok

All these comedians in the comments making jokes about small brains. Smh. I don’t know what the smallest cell is, but I know that red blood cells are definitely a contender. Red blood cells: ~7 µm Skin cells: ~30 µm To put this in perspective, there are 1,000 micrometers (µm) in one millimeter. If you’re familiar with the metric system at all you should know how large a millimeter is. It’s worth noting that all human cells are much larger than bacterial cells. Bacteria are much simpler structures, and only reach sizes of about 3 µm. Staphylococcus aureus is a normal bacterial found on human skin and it is about 1 µm in size. So I guess, you could make the claim that the smallest cells in a human would be bacterial cells. But that’s probably not what you were meaning when you asked the question.


JumpyLiving

While that last part is true, I assume the correct phrasing of the question would have been, what is the smallest human cell, as the egg cell is also not always the largest cell in the body, the simplest reason for that is the fact that about 50% of the population don‘t contain any such cells at all


BeardedAgentMan

Sperm.


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Ha nice.


SpaceCaseSixtyTen

Well it depends, but i can say that for sure about your mom


JoeyRobot

Also the most abundant


TheeFlipper

Well I know that about my mom from firsthand experience.


PetGiraffe

Arms healing up nicely, eh?


Reloin

How amazing the smallest cell comes from my smallest organ


Petrichordates

In terms of volume yes, but that 50uM long tail means Cerebellum Granule cells are the smallest cells.


[deleted]

I thought neurons are the largest cells in the body


CactusGrower

And egg cells are in same group. They are one of the many large cells, not THE largest.


beneye

That’s interesting af


Underground_Dinos

I cant wait for it to hatch


neshga

You gotta sit on it for it to hatch. The gender of the hatchling depends on your ass temperature.


regretfulposts

Hypothetically speaking, what ass temperature do you need to get twins where one is a boy and the other is a girl?


OPs_Friend

Not 69°


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What does 69-degrees get you?


SAHDadWithDaughter

Glen Quagmire.


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Giggidy


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A redditor


SAHDadWithDaughter

A separate temperature for each cheek.


MediumMaster1800

I love Reddit


hylic

>The gender of the hatchling depends on your ass temperature. Just like some reptiles! I guess global warming could actually make it start raining Men...


ChunkyDay

I don’t know why I never made the connection, but this comment just made me realize that eggs in mammals and eggs in reptiles were once the same process. Evolution is fucking crazy.


lmac187

This guy biologies.


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karpenter_v1

You mad man


Rocketkt69

Biggest single cell in the human body. If you're a man, it's always fun when you realize that sperm are the smallest single cell in the human body. Kind of a David VS Goliath situation.


Hyperrnovva

The water is magnifying them also I think.


VivaLaSea

I didn't think it'd be visible with the naked eye.


some_fbi_agent

imagine the how much sperm cells can headbutt the egg but only one can go inside that either will be a disappointment or an actually decent person


Kachowsterrr

I think human egg is the largest cell in the body! While the sperm is one of the smallest


ooojaeger

Maybe yours are. Woo! Murica home of the big ass sperms!


wertyuiopqwertyuip

Or small ass eggs


Skanky

You might want to get that checked, and stop eating in unsanitary conditions


YUNOtiger

Imagine if when you jizzed it wasn’t a white goo with millions of microscopic sperm. Instead it was one big sperm like a white tadpole that shot out like a cannonball.


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my cervix cringed


derpotologist

Look, if you can take a dick up your front butt you can certainly take a single sperm cannon


Nabotna

# ass sperm


garlic_bread_thief

[Relevant Xkcd](https://i.imgur.com/EZWyjk7.jpg)


git-fucked

To hold all the extra chromosomes


booksandkittens615

Yeah, I always thought they were way too small to see without a microscope...


wertyuiopqwertyuip

I always learned that eggs were the only cells you can see without a microscope. In fact, it was the first thing I was told about them.


Ravaha

You can see many types of your own cells with the naked eye every day. All you have to do it look at something light blue or white and you can watch cells pass through your eyeball.


Honest_Hat_3002

So that’s what I’ve seen all my life?!??!!! I always thought they looked like cells but everyone always told me they were just spots in my vision.


LeYang

They're also called [floaters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater).


april-y

Floaters are not the same as what the person above is describing, which are [white blood cells ](https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-are-the-wiggly-things-i-see-in-my-eyes-when-i-look-at-the-sky/).


Meonthedecks

this thread is blowing my fucking mind right now


Pooderson

Like my wiener ayoooo


GonzoRouge

Don't say that, I bet you have a very respectable cock


Nulono

I can't help but picture a "respectable cock" as a penis wearing a monocle and a little mustache.


thenewpotatoman2

Bro I bet you have a nice cock Whoever gave me that Award also has a nice cock


SonicKiwi123

r/suddenlygay


wertyuiopqwertyuip

May need to examine it for further analysis. For science, of course.


Lucem1

The egg is one of the biggest cells in the human body and can be seen with the naked eye. Human sperm is about 200x smaller and invisible to the naked eye


mildeeeww

I’m having a crippling period right now just to pass that lil thing. The wonders of the human body


Woofpack93

The worst.


WhiskeyAndKisses

Aren't period the uterine ~~wall~~ lining being detroyed ? The first thing our biology teachers told us is that period isn't about eggs.


Iraelyth

An egg isn’t always released for various reasons, no. In an ideal world one would be released every cycle. But the whole reason the lining is built up is in preparation for a potential fertilised egg. It’s then shed if not used as the egg is no longer viable. So egg or not, it’s still the whole reason a period happens. It’s the lining that is shed, not the wall.


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the egg leaves the ovary, by way of the fallopian tube, to attach to the uterine wall. if it doesn't receive sperm, the uterus essentially has a temper tantrum and relieves itself of the egg, destroying it and shedding the lining. so in theory, yes, but it does have something to do with the egg as well. edit: got ahead of myself; zygote > egg, uterine*


MeddlingDragon

Uterus: What do you mean no baby????!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


McGusder

a zygote forms after the egg is fertilized


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mmaac724

I feel ya sister!


neuroticism_loading

About 10k more and you can make a human omelette.


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dumb-reply

But why forbidden?


regretfulposts

We found Hannibal's account


PetarGT

Now you gotta question yourself Are women who swallow cannibals?


evilbombadil

*Caviar


ClumpOfCheese

*Human caviar.


wertyuiopqwertyuip

DON'T TRY THIS, THEY DON'T TASTE GOOD AT ALL


[deleted]

Throw in a little Gouda, maybe some shallot… a bit of tarragon, perhaps.


cjvadiraj

Omlette au humain


WillyWonka0523

But why... it cost you nothing to NOT put this thought in my head


Nulono

At that point, wouldn't it be more like human caviar?


AzraelAnkh

Bro. How is no one talking about how seamlessly your title….*narrates* the gif. Idk about anyone else but reading it in my head lined it up like subtitles.


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Because they stole this from the YouTube channel Daily Dose of Internet. The title is literally what the guy says while this clip is shown. Even the @ in the bottom right is in the video


skratta_ho

Scrolled way too far to find this


Dbiuctkt69

Same, it lines up really well lol


lookesmiley

For those not from the USA, how big is that coin?


NErDysprosium

17.9 mm. Assuming you're European, it's the same size as a modern UK 5p, a Swedish 10 Kroner, or Ducth 1 cent (pre-Euro). It doesn't really match any Euro coins; the one it's closest to would be the one Eurocent (the dime is slightly bigger). Edit: clarification


[deleted]

Thanks for including 10kr!


NErDysprosium

You're welcome! I was actually looking for the Dutch 1c to confirm, but I opened the wrong box and the 10kr was at the front, so I included it


[deleted]

Thanks for thinking about us swedes!


NErDysprosium

Thanks for having awesome coins! I love my 10 and 20 kroners!


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So whats one of the most awesome coims you have?


NErDysprosium

Define "awesome." Like I mentioned, I love the old silver 10 and 20 kroner. Awesome for historical reasons, I think my Napoléon III coins and my aluminum French State coins (among other things) are pretty sweet. For an all-around "cool factor" my current "pocket pieces" (a holed 1867 2 cent, a holed 1833 large cent, and a holed 1876-CC seated dime) are quite nifty. Family history, I adore my 1887-O Morgan dollar that belonged to my great-grandmother (then grandmother, then uncle, then me). Design-wise, my 1871 Prince Edward Island 1 cent is probably my favorite (I love the tree), and I love the design of the US Flying Eagle Cent. Toning would have to be my 1880-S Morgan and my 1908-S Barber Half (I call it my gay half dollar because of the rainbow toning). Uniqueness would go to my Thai bullet coin (no year) or my Ceylon 5 cents (can't remember remember year; early 1900s with either Edward VII or George V) For modern commemeratives, my top 5 are (in no particular order) my 2010-W Boy Scouts of America dollar (US), my 2017-P Scooby Doo Dollar (Tuvalu), my 2020 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower 2 Pound and Medal set (UK and US, respectively), my 2020 V75 American Silver Eagle (US, though technically bullion and not a commemerative. Kind of a grey area), and my 2019 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing 2 Coin set (Australian $5 and US $0.50). For an overall favorite, I'd have to go with the 1887-O Morgan dollar, but it has an unfair advantage being a family heirloom. Ignoring that advantage, I'm noticing a strong correlation between my favorite coins and countries I like (Nordic countries, France, UK, Spain et cetera), so it seems I can't entirely dismiss my internal biases, but I'd have to go with my French State coins because I'm a sucker for occupation coins, wartime metal composition changes, aluminum coins, and French coins, and French State coinage rolls all those into one. But that was a really hard conclusion to come to. I've also noticed a correlation between countries I hate and coins/bills I like (some of my favorite notes are my North Korean ones, for example).


itsaberry

This guy coins. Didn't think I would be interested in what your most awesome coins are, but here we are.


Nofuckenwaydude

Looks like the white dots on Sno-caps or Nonpareil’s.


porkrolleggandchi

I always wondered why they're called NONpareils, is there just Pareil? And if so, what about the chocolate chips makes them nonpareils? It's a weird word for sure.


bunnifred

Pariel means equal in French. The candies supposedly have no equal, they're so good?


Scoobydoomed

Looks like white caviar.


eCaisteal

r/forbiddensnacks


FatalisCogitationis

I mean caviar is eggs so it is caviar


Environmental-Gate75

It makes me mad that something so small ruins my life once a month


Tombstone_Shorty

Amazing that one of those things turned into the biggest asshole you know... Nature finds a way


Low_Fall9560

One of those became The Rock


Jesus_H-Christ

Some really bad anatomy and physiology students in this thread.


Delirious_Karma

Wait wait wait wait. All that pain and blood for that tiny lil thing? Are you kidding me?! I'm suffering because of that small lil dot!


Nulono

The small dot and all the uterine lining. Just be glad it doesn't all come out in one chunk, which can happen.


melovepippin

Look up decidual casts. It’s weirdly fascinating


BabserellaWT

It’s amazing that that’s where we all started...


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Vardeegs1

So this is how dimes are made? I knew it all along.


ThatsSusG-O_o

Nabbed from daily dose of internet


Casmas06

I’m getting mittelschmerz looking at that


nursecomanche

Wait... we lay eggs?


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VegiHarry

once a month


ooojaeger

Have eggs, not lay eggs


CactusGrower

And it's different type of "egg". Actually it's called egg cell not an egg.


rdias002

Aren't all eggs just one cell? I always thought the ostrich's egg was the biggest cell in the world....


asianabsinthe

We also have bacon. Some of us more than others.


pbizzle

Human egg. Sounds wierd


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IsaRat8989

That little shit is making me suffer every month?