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Great article, but 'runs the body' is a bit overkill. If you want to endanger your personal safety, try convincing a nephrologist that the liver runs the body.
by medymed 9y ago
Great article, but 'runs the body' is a bit overkill. If you want to endanger your personal safety, try convincing a nephrologist that the liver runs the body.
- gozur88 9y agoOr a cardiologist. Turns out you need pretty much everything in there.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoAnd yet, according to my wife's surgeon, gall bladder removal surgery is the most common surgery in America. (Though he might be biased.) You don't appear to need your appendix. You can live fine with one kidney, or half a liver. I think you can get by with one lung. I've had friends who've had huge portions of their digestive tract removed. I realize that that just speaks to the body's generally robust build, and its redundancy, but you can probably remove more organs from a human body and have it keep running than random parts from under a car's hood.
- d33 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy