My Girlfriend Said I Have Yaoi Hands, What Does That Even Mean? : Manga

Yaoi hands

I know that some of you are cringing right now, but this was a question I got at one of my first Anime Biology 101 panels, so I thought it was about time I give sầu a more expanded answer to lớn the question of are Yaoi hands possible. For those of you who vì chưng not know what Yaoi hands are, they are a common trope in BL, or boys love manga. Specifically, Yaoi hands are over large elongated hands beyond normal proportions. Yaoi hands first showed up in the fandom in 2010, but the art style has been around longer.(FYI- I have never read, nor have any interest in ever reading, any BL manga).

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Elephant hands anyone

Spider fingers

Unlượt thích some of the other art styles seen coming out of Japan, yaoi hands does have a real world equivalent, even if I’m fairly sure most of the artists have sầu never heard of the disorders I am about to mention.

Growth Disorders

A growth disorder is a medical condition characterized by a problem of growth and can be broken down inkhổng lồ two basic categories: one, not enough growth, or two, too much growth. Conditions where an individual does not grow enough are things lượt thích dwarfism, stunted growth, & Kowarski syndrome. These will not be the subject of today’s discussion as I will be focusing on overgrowth conditions where the body toàn thân is growing more than it should. There are a number of disorders that can cause a variety of overgrowths. Since yaoi hands are abnormally large hands, I will be focusing on conditions that can cause overgrowth of the hands: Acromegaly, Sotos Syndrome, and Weaver Syndrome.

Weaver Syndrome

Weaver Syndrome is an extremely rare genetic condition that I didn’t even know existed until I began researching for this post. It was first described in 1974 by Dr. David Weaver và there have sầu only been 50 reported cases in the medical literature which makes it an almost unheard of condition. Given the small number of cases the information on this condition is quite limited. The US National Library of Medicine lists Weaver Syndrome as being a mutation on Chromosome 7, while the National Organization of Rare Disorders lists it as being a mutation on the X chromosome. The disorder itself is quite severe with a number of physical & neurological ailments. Neurologically individuals are quite delayed, meaning they vì chưng not hit the normal development milestones, such as beginning lớn walk at one year old. A delayed individual might not start walking until much later. Individuals with Weaver Syndrome also have sầu delayed speech & cognitive impairment. It is the opposite physically, where an affected individual’s skeletal system develops rapidly, causing the enlargement of various body parts including the head & hands.

Sotos Syndrome

Sotos Syndrome is a still rare (1 in 14,000), but slightly more comtháng, disorder when compared khổng lồ Weaver Syndrome. Sotos Syndrome is similar khổng lồ Weaver Syndrome in that there is more growth than normal, but it is more of an increase in overall growth than in one selected area. However, they vị have sầu larger skulls, hands, và feet than normal. The physical abnormalities are also accompanied by delayed development, autism, and mild retardation. The mutation for Sotos Syndrome is found on Chromosome 5 và it has an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. That being said it is often the result of new mutations and is not seen lớn run in families all that frequently.

Acromegaly

Acromegaly is an overgrowth disorder that is very similar lớn gigantism in that there is an overproduction in human growth hormone by the pituitary gland. The pituitary gl& is a major part of the endocrine system, which regulates numerous bodily functions, including growth. In gigantism and acromegaly there is an over production of growth hormone, which is usually the result of a pituitary tumor (pituitary adenoma) or a hyperactive sầu pituitary. The difference between the two conditions is that if the overproduction of human growth hormone occurs in childhood while the individual is still growing, the result is gigantism, as the whole body grows larger. If the over production of growth hormone happens later in life after the individual has stopped growing the result is acromegaly.

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Acromegaly

In Acromegaly, the individual’s growth plates have sầu fused, and the individual has stopped growing taller. This does not mean, however, that the person’s body toàn thân does not change. Typically patients with acromegaly see their hands, feet, jaw, và nose increase in size, in addition khổng lồ overt physiological issues including heart & kidney failure. The treatment is straight forward as the goal is lớn reduce the amount of human growth hooc môn being produced by the pituitary glvà. This can be accomplished by drugs, radiation, and/or surgery to lớn remove sầu part or all of the pituitary gland. Once the acromegaly is treated, all of the symptoms will very slowly subside including facial và h& abnormalities.

Connective sầu tissue disorders

There are four main tissues in the human body: nervous, epithelial, muscular, & connective tissue. Connective tissue is the tissue that protects, supports, and basically holds the body together. It is a major component of muscle và bone. It would come as no surprise then, that connective sầu tissue disorders could result in physical abnormalities including larger than normal hands. The specific disorder is called arachnodactyly or spider fingers, where the fingers are much longer và slender in comparison khổng lồ the rest of the hand. While you can have arachnodactyly on your own as a result of a mutation in fibrillin-1, & fibrillin-2, it is more often seen in combination with several other connective sầu tissue disorders: Marfan’s syndrome, Loeys–Dietz syndrome, & congenital contractural arachnodactyly. Seeing as each of these conditions is very similar to lớn Marfan’s syndrome, and Loeys–Dietz syndrome was only described in 2005, I will be focusing on Marfan’s syndrome.

spider fingersMarfan’s syndrome

Marfan’s syndrome was first described as a medical condition in 1896 by a French doctor. This does not mean that Marfan’s syndrome is a fairly recent condition only afflicting humanity for the last 1trăng tròn or so years. It just means that this was the first time a physician took the time lớn document the condition, và try lớn treat it. Marfan’s affects around 1 in 3,000 lớn 1 in 10,000 people worldwide. It is an autosomal dominant condition which means that in the majority of cases it is inherited from a parent who also has the condition. There is a veritable laundry menu of symptoms, some of which can be life threatening, like aortic aneurysm. The one symptom that matters here, though, is that individuals with Marfan’s syndrome can have fingers that are longer & thinner than normal.

Marfan’s syndrome

The treatment of Marfan’s syndrome includes medication, surgery, & life style modifications. This allows patients with Marfan’s syndrome to lớn live sầu cthua kém lớn a normal life style và women with Marfan’s tend to lớn live sầu longer than men with Marfan’s. Despite all this, there is still a risk of sudden death due to lớn an aortic aneurysm rupturing. The aorta is the largest artery in the toàn thân và if it ruptures, which usually fatal.

Conclusion

Yes, you can have hands that are much larger than normal, but ladies your only real chance to have sầu Yaoi hands on your lover is to lớn find one with of the conditions discussed todayvà he is not going to lớn look nearly as nice as your BL manga images.