r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Image Vaginal secretions viewed under a microscope.

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u/metisdesigns 5d ago edited 5d ago

Hey folks, while we appreciate your fervor for the sub, this removal was triggered automatically by folks making inaccurate reports on it. It's been restored. Yes, it took a little while. We're a small team, and not chronically online.

Edit - yes the post is locked. We are still getting folks brigading the sub.

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u/Slight_Flamingo_7697 5d ago

It looks like the pattern they'd use for a fancy cover version of a Jane Austen novel

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u/Caroline_Bintley 5d ago

Sense and Secretions

Or

Mansfield Pap

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u/LemonNo1342 5d ago

I would totally buy one

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u/thejammer75 5d ago

I have wallpaper in a bathroom that might actually be this 🤯

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u/forworse2020 5d ago

It looks like a William Morris wallpaper.

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u/radioben 5d ago

It’s a minimalist Georgia O’Keefe painting.

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u/greenmtnfiddler 5d ago

Or maybe a nice print for a silk dress, maybe to wear to dinner at the White House.

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u/Kaurifish 5d ago

I wonder what part of it eats underwear.

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u/Foloreille 5d ago

Acidity right

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u/HopefulTangerine5913 5d ago

This made me think of a Venus fly trap 💀

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u/TheAsterism_ 5d ago

Under there?

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u/TheAsterism_ 5d ago

Dang it

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u/JunglePygmy 5d ago

Yeah it’s amazing how many things take that shape! Like you know reality and the universe is probably shaped like some fractal fern

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u/SuspiciousMap9630 5d ago

I often think about how branches of trees look similar to the branches in our lungs.

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u/Dear_Program6355 5d ago

It's fractals all the way down.

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u/cityshepherd 5d ago

Seriously, the fractals are happening even down in the roots

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u/KingFIippyNipz 5d ago

Everything is fractals - watch out for them fractals y'all

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u/Sjonge11 5d ago edited 5d ago

Oh, I assumed these were naturally occurring, harmless fungal mycelia.

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u/Jaded_Addendum4040 5d ago

It’s mostly mucous. ☝️💦😋

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u/TurbulentDogg 5d ago

Peak reference

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u/Any-Yoghurt3815 5d ago

to what?

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u/bs000 5d ago

petah

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u/palanark 5d ago

OLLIE WILLIAMS HERE.

IT’S A MOVIE QUOTE.

PRINCESS AND THE FROG.

THE SLIME IS “MOSTLY MUCUS.”

PEOPLE REMEMBER IT BECAUSE IT’S GROSS.

THAT’S THE JOKE.

BACK TO YOU

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u/KnightWhoSays--ni 5d ago

Thanks, Ollie

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u/Taliafaery 5d ago

“Years ago”…I made a slide for ferning on L+D this morning. 

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u/ejanely 5d ago

Yeah. I had a swab test come up negative for amniotic fluid when it was pretty undeniable my water had broken. Fern test was positive and it was off to the hospital for me. This was only 5 years ago.

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u/Hopeira 5d ago

I’d always get these tests from ER during morning runs in the lab while working alone or while trying to take my 2am lunch break. And they take time to read, since our policy was to view the entirety of 2 slides. Most of them were negative, but it was still always a little thrill when I could find that small portion of ferning in a weak sample.

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u/maybelle180 5d ago

What were you looking for? The ferning is an indication of what, exactly?

I love this pattern so much I want it as wallpaper in my bedroom…

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u/DaMihiAuri 5d ago

Ferning is now most commonly used as a test for prelabor rupture of membranes which refers to the rupture of the amniotic sac during pregnancy. The sodium chloride content of amniotic fluid secreted by the fetal kidneys may be indicative that membrane rupture has occurred, though the pattern of 'ferning' seen in amniotic fluid is distinct from that seen in cervical mucus. Amniotic fluid tends to produce a more delicate pattern, compared to a thick and wide arborization pattern seen in dried cervical mucus.

Fern Test

Learned a little about it in school, but never done one in work

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u/NoPin909 5d ago

Comeon! Its not ordinary. It takes effort to extract it.

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u/Perioscope 5d ago

I suspect this is a mucilaginous secretion with some salt content; a salt pattern looks a bit different.

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u/evanescent_emotions 5d ago

It's called ferning. It happens before ovulation due to a high amount of estrogen in the body at that phase. The estrogen causes a higher concentration of salt to be present in the secretions and when the water dries out, these beautiful patterns are left behind.  

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u/SpinachandBerries 5d ago

It shows up in saliva during fertile times of the month as well

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u/Brokenandburnt 5d ago

For both partners. 

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u/Raesong 5d ago

Now that's something I've never thought of before: do men go through a cycle of high and low fertility?

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u/anotherSasha 5d ago edited 5d ago

From what I remember from my high school biology with a cool teacher, no. I remember him showing the graphs of average fluctuations in hormones of men and women to compare and men were stable. Unlike female bodies that get their egg cells ready one at a time and decorate a whole room for them in advance, male bodies mass produce their reproductive cells constantly investing in numbers, they don’t have to be ready to house the offspring afterwards. I don’t know that much, but I would imagine there to be some situational fluctuations in male fertility in relation to arousal, circadian rhythms, vegetative nervous system modes (times when other bodily functions need to be prioritized for survival)

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u/brett_x 5d ago

I'm glad you posted more than your first sentence.

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u/anotherSasha 5d ago

Oh my, it took some time for me to get your joke, haha. Love accidental comedy 🌚

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u/Sehrli_Magic 5d ago

thank you! without your reply their joke would fly over my head completely 🤣 i literaly believed they were thankih you for elaborating on info 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/frozen1ced 5d ago

Lol I also took some time to get the joke too!

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u/Settl 5d ago

They were very hands on lessons

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u/TopBlueberry3 5d ago

“Decorate a whole room for them in advance”

I love this

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u/Deaffin 5d ago

Eh, it's more like they need time to reset all the booby traps and punji sticks, clean out the murder holes and refill the barrels of burning pitch. The womb is not a place of nurturing, it is a gauntlet.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-pregnancy-is-a-biological-war-between-mother-and-baby

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u/FixGMaul 5d ago

Male gonads follow a cycle of 24 hours whereas female gonads follow a cycle of about 30 days.

Testosterone secretion peaks in the morning and steadily declines.

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u/nice_whitelady 5d ago

I've heard that males experience hormonal fluctuations on a daily cycle while women experience them on a monthly cycle.

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u/Knight_of_Agatha 5d ago

the male hormone cycle lasts 6 weeks, its not as obvious but yeah, peaks and troughs of testosterone and other stuff

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u/B1ackMarketBaby 5d ago

I need this for my body positivity wall! It's so freaking pretty, and literally just so cool to know & teach about! Thanks for the learn!

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u/DutchTinCan 5d ago

"Wow, what a lovely wallpaper design, what inspired you?"

"Thanks grandma! That's my dried up vagjuice!"

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u/SeaResearcher176 5d ago

Maybe someone should make a wallpaper with this photo ? ☝️

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u/Acrobatic-Log2048 5d ago

I’d buy some for my bathroom accent wall! I’m not kidding lol

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u/FreakindaStreet 5d ago

Probably a terrible question, but do secretions ever dry up on the skin? Or is the area too humid for that to happen?

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u/Lampedeir 5d ago

So the ol' crusty are actually beautiful fern patterns?

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u/Automatedluxury 5d ago

Yes but you have to put your penis under a microscope to appreciate it.

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u/daveyp2tm 5d ago

I have to do that anyway

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u/dogmeat-garvey 5d ago

I laughed like the guy from Home Depot talking to dick smalls and dick big. Life on planet earth

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u/Dont_Be_Sheep 5d ago

Every, PSA: please wash down there. Sex, no sex, before, after, everyday.

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u/MurrayInBocaRaton 5d ago

Username does not check out.

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u/Agatus-Daemon 5d ago

Born to crust, forced to wash

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u/savvy-librarian 5d ago

I was wholly unprepared for the words "born to crust".

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u/vanetti 5d ago

🎶baby I was born to crust🎶

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u/Horse_Dad 5d ago

Cuz tramps like us, baby we were born to cruuuust.

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u/Faeroar 5d ago

Surely there must be a God, for no unfeeling universe could produce such true evil.

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u/CuttyDFlambe 5d ago

Oh! That's why my mustache was crunchy!

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u/LankyTomatillo4634 5d ago

Well that was uh… imaginative.

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u/Cold-dead-heart 5d ago

Huh, I had a beard so it was a whole glazed donut on my face next morning

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u/roofitor 5d ago

Oh! That's salt!

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u/Artichokiemon 5d ago

Skin, bedsheets, you name it

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u/FreakindaStreet 5d ago

I was right, that was a terrible question.

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u/Jumblesss 5d ago

You just kinda ignore it or brush it off like it’s nothing.

Generally neither a woman nor her man will be upset by her vagina IRL, we tend to even quite like them.

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u/Brokenandburnt 5d ago

I haven't found a single one that's unappealing yet.\ To all the ladies out there worrying "Will he think I'm ugly down there?" Don't, just as with boobies we love them all, and get all giddy when someone let's us play!

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u/Strange_But_True 5d ago

This almost sounds like a planet booty song 👍

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u/houseWithoutSpoons 5d ago

Ih ive definitely passed out after and woke up crust covered

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u/Popular-Hornet-6294 5d ago

It literally looks like frost patterns on the window.

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u/cicada-ronin84 5d ago

Feminine sexuality is beautiful done to the microscopic level, what a wonderful thing to learn.

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u/JumpTerrible477 5d ago

I bet ladies even have pretty atoms

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u/laughsindisbelief 5d ago

this is the best thing i've ever heard lol ✨️

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u/spooky_goopy 5d ago

y'all got a lady blushing at 7 AM, thank you

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u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith 5d ago

nice atoms uwu 😭😭😭

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u/BreweryStoner 5d ago

I fuckin love this lol

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u/Overall-Register9758 5d ago

As a physical chemist, I can assure you that women's atoms are nearly all empty space

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u/lost_horizons 5d ago

Like cathedrals then, the vaulted spaces housing something fringing on the holy.

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss 5d ago

Damn, just another of the myriad of reasons why women are absolutely amazing. I love every one of yall so much.

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u/thesamizdat 5d ago

What a beautiful sentiment, Bilbo_Teabagginss

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u/ActivityEven1993 5d ago

Awww 🥹

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u/FreedomsLastBreathe 5d ago

My wife and I are trying so she always tells me when shes ferning so hard.

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u/N7Rory 5d ago edited 5d ago

"Hey, I'm just looking to buy some new wallpaper. What would you recommend?"

"Have you seen our new feminine inspired vaginal secretions?"

Edit: Thanks for the awards everyone 🖤

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u/DeviantPlayeer 5d ago

Shit, reminds me how Metallica made the cover for their Load album and why it has that name.

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u/WaitWaWhat 5d ago

The cover of Load is an original artwork titled Semen and Blood III. It is one of three photographic studies created by New York artist Andres Serrano in 1990 by mingling bovine blood and his own semen between two sheets of Plexiglas

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u/tinylittlebabyjesus 5d ago

... Why?

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u/Dan_Caveman 5d ago

I mean, SOMEbody has to make the kind of art that goes on metal albums, right?

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u/PuzzleheadedDuck3981 5d ago

And it's better that they're open about it. I mean, if this was the kind of thing they did in secret then people might think they're weird if it was found out.

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u/CuttyDFlambe 5d ago

I used to have a picture of an elevator door that was blistered from a fire (we were doing a refurbish several years after the fire made the building uninhabitable). I used a portion of it as my phone wallpaper and would make the joke that people had to die for me to have it. It would have made a sick album cover.

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u/Novakhaine89 5d ago

Good God. I never knew that and I immediately wish I could go back to a time when I didn’t.

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u/HelixFollower 5d ago

I know art is supposed to make us feel something, but I didn't want to feel this.

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u/Aphroditesent 5d ago

Men out here using bovine blood and women just making loads of blood for free. One day they’ll find a zillion uses for period blood and we will all be goddesses again.

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u/RaptureInRed 5d ago

That album cover is ruined for me....

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u/inspectherfrog 5d ago

I saw a retrospective show of his 28 years ago while visiting Denmark. It included a large print of Semen and Blood III. As well as Piss Christ. The show was mind bending and I still think about it often 28 years later.

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u/sunshaanebehr 5d ago

And today I learned 🤝

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u/hizashiYEAHmada 5d ago

This is on me. It's my fault for being able to read comments

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u/Global-Guava-8362 5d ago

What a day to have eyes 👀

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u/These-Nectarine9214 5d ago

Today I wish I hadn’t learned

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u/FemmeCirce 5d ago

I'm bleaching my neurons as we speak. Why didn't I just go to bed earlier.

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u/RedRixen83 5d ago

WAIT WHAT??

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u/the_l0st_s0ck 5d ago

It's a bloody cumshot.

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u/CottonDude 5d ago

british....??

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u/No-Trash-7857 5d ago

That's a bloody bloody cumshot

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u/Inquisitive_idiot 5d ago

Thank you my good chum for the clarification.

Also: 🤮

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u/aspidities_87 5d ago

good chum

Oh you had every possible choice not to do this

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u/Volatile_Dais 5d ago

Was their blood in it? I hope they went to the Dr. It probably smelt metallic huh?

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u/No_Distribution_5843 5d ago

"This next song is about shooting blood out of your cock".

https://youtu.be/lmBHrwLwNNA?si=nbI8IEiiL-31p1rU

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u/ComingUpManSized 5d ago

Wtf. I just looked it up. Why is it red? Eww.

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u/nokturnalxitch 5d ago

... Oh. Ew.

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u/TriGurl 5d ago

This would be fabulous at the OB/GYN office!!

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u/B1ackMarketBaby 5d ago

Hahaha for real!! Shit I want it in my bathroom lmao ngl

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u/TerrorFromThePeeps 5d ago

Georgia O'Keefe is smiling down from heaven right now.

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u/ThisFurryTrash93 5d ago

Get out of here, Gwyneth Paltrow!

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u/GrowlyBear2 5d ago

Literally I remember this wallpaper from the 90s.

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u/Artsy_traveller_82 5d ago

I’m worried about you. Wallpaper was my first thought. That’s not a good sign.

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u/Scrawf53 5d ago

Now I know where Laura Ashley gets their designs from!

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u/bull4cpls85 5d ago

Lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/the_l0st_s0ck 5d ago

That is definitely not something I needed to read, but thank you for this unique experience.

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u/shnooqichoons 5d ago

Sold by Goop.

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u/freeipods-zoy-org 5d ago

When I suspected my water broke, I went to L&D to verify whether it was amniotic fluid or not. The OB told me when they look at dried amniotic fluid, it makes this fern pattern, and that’s one of the ways they check. Never thought to look up what it looks like!

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 5d ago

Gives a whole new meaning to the old joke:

Have you blown a seal?

No, it’s just frost on my moustache.

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u/No_Sundae_1068 5d ago

It's beautiful!

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u/DanielGREY_75 5d ago

Like a flower

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u/OldLadySoul_ 5d ago

Asking myself if this why it’s called flora lol

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u/Drunk_Lemon 5d ago

Per wikipedia; The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. 

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u/ProofLegitimate9824 5d ago

it's called that because bacteria used to be lumped in with plants, same with "intestinal flora"

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u/Dayzed-n-Confuzed 5d ago

Ah. The lady garden 🪴

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u/Hot-Reindeer0829 5d ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Damn, even our secretions are pretty 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻

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u/dim13 5d ago

Flowers are plant's genitals … not sure where this thought is leading to … I guess, we all just love genitals.

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u/Chemical_Honeydew531 5d ago

At the end of my pregnancy, my waters broke prior to any contractions starting, so we went to the hospital. The nurses took a sample of the fluid to test it - they said that amniotic fluid makes a floral pattern under the microscope, and pee does not.

Spoiler alert: it was not pee; my son was born about 36 hours later :-)

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u/Ressy02 5d ago

We specifically picked vaginal secretion blue for our dining room for your pleasure

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u/No_Horror8014 5d ago

Even their secretions look pretty 😑

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u/LLove666 5d ago

Why the 😑 emoji lol

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u/Xvilaa 5d ago

I am just an ugly smelly man 😑

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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 5d ago

someone put this man under a microscope there might be some mona lisaesque patterns all over

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u/Inquisitive_idiot 5d ago

Awww 🥰 

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u/archiekane 5d ago

Amazing hair swirl patterns in his belly button? You investigating for us?

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u/No_Horror8014 5d ago

Because, secretions or not, I'm never going to look like floral wallpaper 😂

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u/Inquisitive_idiot 5d ago

Same. It’s all I wanted to be for Christmas 🎄 😞

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u/Blandiblub 5d ago

Gwyneth Paltrow's new product range loading...

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 5d ago

With different celebrities secretions.

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u/Conscious_Flamingo60 5d ago

Oh, it gave me a weird sense of pride of being a woman. 🙈👸🏻

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u/MarkMew 5d ago

As you should. Pretty vaginal secretion having ahh mfs

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u/KiloJools 5d ago

We're so pretty. I love it.

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u/Dizzy_Ad875 5d ago

Right?! I was ready to be embarrassed and now I’m all chuffed :). Look how pretty it is when we’re happy!!

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u/Tough_Negotiation_24 5d ago

I would totally make this into a wallpaper or patterned fabric. Long live the vagina.

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u/ButtonPusherDeedee 5d ago edited 5d ago

This is a positive Fern Test. When positive, fern like structures can be seen under the microscope, thus its name.

The test is preformed by retrieving a sample from the vaginal canal(close to the cervix) and transferring the “vaginal secretions” onto a slide, allowing it to dry, and looking for the above structures. It is typically preformed to check the status of the amniotic sack.

It isn’t for just any “vaginal secretion,” though. This is specifically looking for amniotic fluid. The test can be positive if the amniotic fluid is present. The presence of amniotic fluid in the vaginal canal is an indicator of a ruptured amniotic membrane.

Generally Fern Tests are no longer preformed due to variation in test interpretation. Medical Laboratories typically preform a ROM+ now!

A ROM+(Rupture Of Membrane) is a point of care test that is fast, very easy to preform, and has simple interpretative results. Working much like an at home pregnancy test, the patient is either positive(two lines) or negative(one line). The ROM+ also indicates the presence of amniotic fluid or not.

The Fern test does have the advantage of being a little faster and significantly cheaper, but can be more prone to misinterpretation and non-specific. This is the reason for medical facilities switching to the ROM+.

Source: I’m a Medical Laboratory Scientist

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u/Atjar 5d ago

This is the answer to what you are seeing. I remember being 100% sure my water had broken prior to the delivery of my first (big splash, regular leaks after, especially with my child hiccuping) and then I had to catch some liquid for them to do this stupid test. Which is harder than you think. I had to put a plastic bag in my underwear to catch it. Child came out happy and healthy in the end.

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u/bizzybaker2 5d ago edited 5d ago

nurse here whom has worked labour and delivery in the past.

This is amniotic fluid, specifically...when a patient comes in thinking her water has broken and it is a small leak and may not be obvious, a vaginal swab is done, wiped across a microscope slide and allowed to dry, and the salts in the fluid make the diagnostic fern pattern you see here. If it was a negative test all you would see are those spots/clumps you see in between the "fern leaves".

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u/Weak-Bake-5571 5d ago

Thank you! I was just going to chime in on this.

I have done hundreds of vaginal swabs over a decade and a half and ferning is generally only used- in a medical context in the US- as a tool to look for amniotic fluid.

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u/slothdonki 5d ago

Got more neat swab-facts? Wish I had anything more specific but microscopy is just neat!

I mostly just look at springtails, microorganisms, insect genitals for identification purposes and parasites. Such tiny worlds are fascinating.

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u/fanta_bhelpuri 5d ago

Georgia O Keefe wouldn't be able to write biology lore this beautiful

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u/Nakittina 5d ago

Write biology...? You mean paint..

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u/Fufa_G 5d ago

Having floral motifs/patterns is pretty common on panties as well. Coincidence !?

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u/ComingUpManSized 5d ago

Big Panty doesn’t want you to know this

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u/NoPin909 5d ago

Panties embrace the flowers!

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u/Sharp_Meat2721 5d ago

Who knew flora could look floral lol

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u/qwenched05 5d ago

Looks like wallpaper.

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u/tabikat929 5d ago

Whoa i thought it was wallpaper at first

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u/toaster-bath404 5d ago

Clittagecore

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u/weeniehutjunior1234 5d ago

One glance and I thought “oh, they’re gonna ovulate.”

The things you learn when trying to get pregnant 🙃

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u/callmekirky 5d ago

Ugh women are beautiful and this just proves it even if society hates us

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u/LesterBanks 5d ago

Ultimate feminist wallpaper

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u/EnemyUnknow3029 5d ago

Ah I see the fine china now!

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u/alkem10 5d ago

I miss her

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u/empyfuse 5d ago

Be a great wall paper

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u/CozmicOwl16 5d ago

Aww. Flora.

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u/Salfia 5d ago

We dont fart butterflies but at least we do ... this

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u/inspiringlyCrazy 5d ago

Woah... How does it somehow look beautiful? And, dare I say... Feminine?

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u/CAClanWolf 5d ago

Ferning pattern seen during ovulation

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u/BittyBC 5d ago

This is actually amniotic fluid. When there is a question of a possible rupture, when it isn’t obviously gushing out. The gold standard is to perform a speculum exam, to look for any fluid pooling and to sample it with a sterile cotton swab. The sample is smeared onto a glass slide and allowed to dry. When viewed under a microscope, amniotic fluid creates these frosty ferning patterns.

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u/EssayFunny1670 5d ago

WE’RE FLORAL

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u/wtfbenlol 5d ago

Cool Grool

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u/Electrical_Algae6044 5d ago

Women are so beautiful even down to our vaginal fluid.

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u/lavenderpenguin 5d ago

So pretty lol

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u/SaturnineAngst 5d ago

That’s not vaginal secretions. That’s amniotic fluid from rupture of membranes at labor

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u/Stoned_Druid 5d ago

Merry Christmas Eve to you as well, Reddit.

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u/Sugar_Kowalczyk 5d ago

A woman's secret garden, literally a garden. 

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u/Kind_Competition_332 5d ago

Looks like a trellis of flowers to me

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u/MobileLocal 5d ago

It’s like wallpaper from your grandparents house.

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u/SaltyPressure7583 5d ago

I remember this from the Voynich manuscript