Don’t tell me she has a floral scent.
Reminds me of floral wallpaper I had in my childhood home…
I was curious about this, so I looked it up. It’s even cooler than I thought!
“It’s like going under the sea,” says Vigil, an OBGYN and a professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. “You see all these little stars and seaweed-like appearances.”
But this field of fractals is no underwater scene. It’s a microscopic view of mucus from the human cervix. These shapes are created during a “fern test,” named after the distinct fern leaf structures present in cervical mucus around ovulation.
In addition to being beautiful, cervical mucus is functionally important. It lines the cervix, vagina, and vulva, creating a protective barrier between the body and the environment. The mucus also plays a major role in fostering healthy bacteria, protecting from pathogens, helping sperm reach the reproductive tract, and even signaling disease and pregnancy issues to clinicians.
“It’s a gatekeeper,” explains Katharina Ribbeck, a biochemist at MIT who studies all kinds of mucus, including cervical mucus. “It lets the right things in and [keeps] the wrong things out.”
Katharina Ribbeck, a biochemist at MIT who studies all kinds of mucus
See this is the problem with science hippies, they just don’t know when to stop. I would’ve been perfectly content just thinking that all mucus from all animals is just mucus. But now I’ve got to go find the most disgusting whitepaper to read about this.
Cervix havers are basically trees is what im reading
There’s a reason the Tree of Life is intertwined with the Goddess in Wicca.
We need this print as a physical wallpaper.
I swear I used to have a shirt with this design
