20-something year old male. Life will never be the same for him.

  • Genericusername@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait, how isn’t he dead? Aren’t the nerves that make the heart and lungs do their thing get severed if the spine breaks at that point?

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      1 year ago

      Organs can do a surprising amount on their own. Your heart will beat even without impulses from the brain, it just does much differently.

      Not sure about the lungs, though. The diagram diaphragm does most of the work there. I don’t know how it would act without impulses.