Comment by stevenwoo

5 hours ago

I’m surprised this does not mention humans can grow back the tips of their fingers (past the white part of cuticle) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854... Supposed to be only kids but I’ve chopped off a few mm by accident it came back as an adult or I can’t tell the difference.

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adamors  4 hours ago

The exact same thing happened to me. I chopped off a good half a cm with an axe when splitting firewood about 5 years ago. After no less than 6 months there wasn’t any sign of the mutilation.

roarcher  4 hours ago

Does your fingerprint look normal? When I was a kid I was goofing around with a pair of scissors and lopped off a good chunk of the pad of one finger. Thirty years later my fingerprint looks like a bunch of little dots at that location. The ridges never grew back properly.

  • VladVladikoff  4 hours ago

    Same. Chopped off the tip of my thumb with an axe, it’s healed but very scarred and fingerprint is not normal.

KellyCriterion  5 hours ago

2 years I ago I sliced maybe 1.5mm frommy thumb-tip; when taking off the bandage, I could clearly see the "straight cut" and that some material was missing.

Until today, it recovered completely

  • delfinom  5 hours ago

    Lol, I once sharpened my knives and went to cook. During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife is", next thing you know, i cut about 1/4" of my finger tip off, right through the finger nail with zero resistance.

    Besides the blood getting everywhere and needing superglue to stop it, it grew back completely fine.

    • wafflemaker  13 minutes ago

      You shouldn't really sharpen kitchen knifes too sharp. And even if they're not super razor sharp (cutting a finger with no resistance), you should still warn people new to your kitchen or even family members/regular users right after each re-sharpening.

      Additionally, too low angle will make the knife very suspectible to blunting and/or require constant drawing on the sharpening steel¹. Unless you have super high quality steel like Japaneese knifes or some craft smith knifes.

      Butcher knifes, to be used along with a chainmail glove, are fine. Just don't test their sharpness on body parts. Or use them to shave a bit of hair, but very carefully.

      1: https://www.dick.de/messer/en/sharpening/dickoron-family/dic...

    • catlikesshrimp  4 hours ago

      "During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife"" Is there something missing in the story? (drugs, coercion, self harm ideas, anything) I have had my fair share of avoidable cuts, but none of them included looking at the edge before happening.

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