01-29-2004, 08:01 AM | #11 |
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I though internal bleeding was the cause of death by a bursted appendix.
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01-29-2004, 08:21 AM | #12 |
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The Spleen is the source of the only truly funny line in "Patriot Games" - a film based on a Tom Clancy book and starring Harrison Ford and Sean Bean. Harrison Ford plays a CIA agent who's become involved in an IRA plot and now the IRA want to kill him. Theres one scene where his daughter and wife are attacked in their car and the resulting crash means the daughters spleen has to be removed and while in hospital Ford receives possibly the least scary threat I've ever heard:
[Irish accent]Well Mr Ryan... I hear your daughter's lost her spleen. How will she fight infection now? *evil laughter* [/Irish accent] Has me in stitches every time, and its supposed to be scary...
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01-29-2004, 09:50 AM | #14 |
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Now I'm wondering... what was the function of the earlobes before...?
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01-29-2004, 03:30 PM | #17 |
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Some correct answers and som *cough* not so correct answers to put it mildly. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
As smoothie said, in a rather strange way, the spleen is important for maturation of cells involved in your immune system. However, this function lessens with age. A grown man/woman lacking his/her spleen will most often not feel any different from a man/woman having his/her spleen. It is however important for children, although there are no severe effects when the spleen is missing. Infections perhaps take a week longer to disappear for instance. What else.. Yes the infection following appendicitis can be lethal however it is not as acute as it was some 10-20 or so years ago. It is nowadays treated with antibiotics and lancing of possible boils. However there could be serious secondary effects. The physiological functions of the appendix is, as Smoothie said, not known.
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01-29-2004, 04:18 PM | #18 |
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I had a teacher who once said the appendix was needed because "cavemen would eat things with all the fur and feathers and small bones still on" and it was needed to.. filter, or help digest... But I admit this teacher has a track record of being wrong, and I would take everything she says with a grain of salt.
But for her, and for this discussion, it's not quite so unreasonable
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01-29-2004, 06:29 PM | #19 |
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I thought a theory was it was used to digest grass...
EDIT: Oh, and earlobes had a purpose? [ 01-29-2004, 06:30 PM: Message edited by: slicer15 ] |
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