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The "brainless" man

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    CQFD
  • 24 February 2014
  • Dominique Müller
    • Médecine, UNIGE
  • Shahan Momjian
    • HUG
    • Médecine, UNIGE
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The interior of its skull is characterized by the almost total absence of a brain. Instead, a cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid, 99% water. And, against the walls of the skull, between 1 and 2 centimetres of brain tissue.

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