A MAN seemingly lived his whole life without realising he had three penises due to an ultra-rare condition, doctors have revealed.

The 78-year-old British man donated his body to the University of Birmingham Medical School, where students discovered a “ remarkable anatomical variation ” as they dissected him.

The man's genitals appeared normal from the outside, but further examination revealed he had two more small penises "stacked" inside his groin.

Medics described their "serendipitous discovery" in a paper submitted to the Journal of Medical Case Reports .

According to the report, the man had triphallia, "a rare congenital anomaly describing the presence of three distinct penile shafts".

Being born with more than one penis - known as polyphallia - is "extremely rare", researche

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