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Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

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In this image, stained retinal blood vessels are shown to emerge from the black-coloured optic disc. The optic disc is a blind spot because no light receptor cells are present in this area of the retina where the optic nerve and retinal blood vessels leave the back of the eye

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This colour-enhanced image depicts a taste bud on the tongue. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds that are involved with detecting salty, sour, bitter, sweet and savoury taste perceptions.

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Brush your teeth often because this is what the surface of a tooth with a form of "corn-on-the-cob" plaque looks like.

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This is what a colour-enhanced image of the inner surface of your lung looks like. The hollow cavities are alveoli; this is where gas exchange occurs with the blood.

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This image of warped lung cancer cells is in stark contrast to the healthy lung in the previous picture.

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