Chinese Boy Born With Twelve Fingers and Twelve Toes

Although not unheard of, the incidence of polydactylism, or being born with extra fingers and toes, doesn’t happen every day. The word derives from the ancient Greek (polus=many and daktulos=finger). Usually, the extra limbs are surgically removed. In the most unusual case of a baby boy born in China last year, a second penis was removed from his back shortly after birth.


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A twelve-year-old boy named Ouyang Guangchun from Songpo village in southern China’s Hunan province was born with 12 fingers and 12 toes and has lived his life with all of his dactyls intact. His parents have declined to permit the surgery because they feel the extra digits do not in any way interfere with their son’s quality of life or his ability to use his hands or feet.

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