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Can your appendix be on your left side?
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Anatomy: No. Not likely. There are rare humans where everything is transposed. But your parents would have known that when you were a baby.
Answered 9/21/2014
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Yes: Some rare individuals are reversed with mirror image , heart on right side and stomach on right side. Everything reversed. Some people have malrotation or nonrotation of bowel which causes the right side of colon and appendix to be in wrong position.
Answered 5/6/2016
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