Medical Origins and Context
In 2011 researchers at Imperial College London analyzed the drawing to identify that the image demonstrates that the subject has a likely groin disorder (left sided inguinal hernia). This is a common condition typically treated by surgery in the modern-era, but may also reflect that Leonardo da Vinci may have based the Vitruvian Man on a cadaver who may have died from this condition.
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