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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/20

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/2013/06/10/190385484/chopped-how-amputated-fingertips-sometimes-grow-back 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.

KellyCriterion 4mo 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
- oniony 4mo ago
  What, last night?
  - KellyCriterion 4mo ago
    haha :D Sorry,English is not my native language! What I meant was: "During the last years until today" Is this sentence better?
    - mootothemax 4mo ago
      In your first comment, replace “until today” with “since then” and you’re good! “Until today” is one of those English phrases that is particularly unfair on non-native speakers. You know “until” and you know “today” and so it’s completely natural to combine them in the way you did. But as ever, English is dumb and annoying and hard work, all at the same time.
- delfinom 4mo 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.
  - catlikesshrimp 4mo ago
    [flagged]
    - rpastuszak 4mo ago
      Irony deficiency
    - delfinom 4mo ago
      I didn't look at the edge, I was just thinking of that idea while slicing some vegetables and coincidentally not paying attention at the same time.
    - coryrc 4mo ago
      The way you asked that question is wholly inappropriate for a public forum and also rude.
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  - wafflemaker 4mo 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/dickoron-dick-polish https://www.dick.de/messer/en/sharpening/dickoron-family/dic...
    - KellyCriterion 4mo ago
      > You shouldn't really sharpen kitchen knifes too sharp There is a sentence among cooks: "only with a stub/butt knife you cut yourself" - isnt this true anymore?
stymaar 4mo ago
Liver as well, but I have no idea if that's the same underlying phenomenon.
adamors 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago
  Same. Chopped off the tip of my thumb with an axe, it’s healed but very scarred and fingerprint is not normal.

KellyCriterion 4mo 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

oniony 4mo ago
What, last night?
- KellyCriterion 4mo ago
  haha :D Sorry,English is not my native language! What I meant was: "During the last years until today" Is this sentence better?
  - mootothemax 4mo ago
    In your first comment, replace “until today” with “since then” and you’re good! “Until today” is one of those English phrases that is particularly unfair on non-native speakers. You know “until” and you know “today” and so it’s completely natural to combine them in the way you did. But as ever, English is dumb and annoying and hard work, all at the same time.
delfinom 4mo 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.
- catlikesshrimp 4mo ago
  [flagged]
  - rpastuszak 4mo ago
    Irony deficiency
  - delfinom 4mo ago
    I didn't look at the edge, I was just thinking of that idea while slicing some vegetables and coincidentally not paying attention at the same time.
  - coryrc 4mo ago
    The way you asked that question is wholly inappropriate for a public forum and also rude.
    - deleted 4mo ago
      [deleted]
- wafflemaker 4mo 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/dickoron-dick-polish https://www.dick.de/messer/en/sharpening/dickoron-family/dic...
  - KellyCriterion 4mo ago
    > You shouldn't really sharpen kitchen knifes too sharp There is a sentence among cooks: "only with a stub/butt knife you cut yourself" - isnt this true anymore?

stymaar 4mo ago

Liver as well, but I have no idea if that's the same underlying phenomenon.

adamors 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago
Same. Chopped off the tip of my thumb with an axe, it’s healed but very scarred and fingerprint is not normal.