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Balloon Belly: In reality, even a very full stomach doesn't cause this much bloating, while gaining weight is slower and more evenly distributed than this trope suggests.

Art Shift: When the new art style changes the body proportions.

Anatomy Anomaly: One character has a more or less stylised body than the others.

Anatomically Impossible Sex: Sexual intercourse that would be painful at best and debilitating at worst if it was ever attempted.Anatomically Ignorant Healing: When a body part is accidentally reattached to the wrong place.Amusing Injuries: The artistic licence Played for Laughs.Ambiguously Human: When a supposedly human character's physiology deviates too much from the norm.Accordion Man: Even if you survived being crushed, your body won't look like an accordion.90% of Your Brain: People do use all of their brains in reality, just not all at once, which would cause a seizure.This is a Sub-Trope of Artistic Licence – Biology and Anatomy Tropes, and related to Artistic Licence Medicine, Anatomically Impossible Sex, and Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way.

These are usually played for fanservice, comedy, or horror. Fictional works have taken the human form to its logical extremes, from impossible figures to organs that work differently to reality. However, some rules are made to be broken. It has become an essential part of biology and the study of it is also important for art. A variant of the nursery rhyme Dem BonesĪnatomy is the study of the structure of an organism, specifically in relation to humans and animals.

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