This CT scan shows the moment doctors found a ‘stone baby’ inside the womb of a 73-year-old woman from Algeria. The stone baby, also known as a lithopedion is created when a pregnancy forms in the abdomen rather than in the uterus.
When the pregnancy fails, the body lacks a mechanism to naturally expel it. Consequently, the body undergoes a process of calcification, essentially turning the fetus into a 'stone,' utilizing the immune process designed to protect against any foreign objects detected in a person's system. (Credit: Morbid Knowledge)
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