has long been established that the size of the head, like the brain, is not relevant to intellectual development.Nevertheless, people are no longer interested in who owns the world's biggest headache.The exact answer is hardly there.Not every man with a large head trying to get in the Guinness Book of Records.
The biggest, but not the "brainy"
Interestingly, the biggest in the world belongs to the head is not very big man.So Ukrainian Leonid Stadnik recognized.His height (253 cm) and hand (31 cm), recognized as the largest in the world, but the head is consistent with the proportions of the body of a giant.
record holder or an unhappy man?
So who owns the world's biggest head?Record holder is a resident of China.Unfortunately, the fact that it does not bring happiness, because the giant size of the head - a consequence of an incurable genetic abnormality.The disease is transmitted from parents called Recklinghausen's disease.In the nerve tissue in humans afflicted with disease, begin to develop numerous tumors.Expanding, they increase in size and eventually lead to a change in the bone tissue.Non-malignant tumors may grow in different parts of the body.But the Chinese Juan Chuntsayu not fared better than anyone.The biggest head in the world - it is nothing like a huge tumor located in the skull.For a long time the man could not help, so she grew up to 15 (according to other sources, up to 23) kilograms.She changed the bone structure of the skull, cover one eye and ear of the poor guy.For anything to see the man who is known to the world as "The Elephant Man" was forced to support the sprawling arms build-up.But that's not all.It turns out inhumanly huge head to "get" a man whose height of 135 centimeters (normal for the representatives of China).
Naturally, the unfortunate was provided surgical care.Surgery to remove the build-up lasted more than 60 minutes.Operated wonderful young man a dozen professionals.Immediately after removing the build-up carefully obmeryali.The perimeter of the tumor exceeded the meter, length - 57 cm.It turns out that the greatest mind of a person born to healthy, as it seemed, the parents began to grow in four years.At this age, the boy was seen first tumor.She grew up all my life, and the doctors decided to remove it when the patient 31st birthday.The doctor who operated on the accident, said that the main difficulty was that the build-up took place close to a variety of vascular and nerve centers.Doctors coped fine.Juan Chuntsayu no longer belongs to the record head, he is healthy, quite happy and not mourning the loss of "title."
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The world's largest head (if we consider only the size) was Lenin.It weighs 42 tons, has a height of 7.7 meters, width - about five meters.It is an established in Ulan-Ude monument.Located on almost five-meter pedestal, it is the largest head in the world.Once fans have fun even sewed her fur hat, so she did not suffer from the cold.
