The lower rib is the only bone in the human body that can regenerate if removed.
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Does the body grow a new rib - or does a new body grow on the rib thast has been extracted?
Either would be a fucking miracle and there would be many many many many reports in the medical press.
Does new shit grow in your ass when you pull out such a massive lump such as this priceless gem?
C'mere, NephilimFree, and we'll test your theory. I've got a rusty knife. If you grow a new rib, I'll hail your goofy-ass god.
So pull up your shirt and show me the strength of your faith. No? Didn't think so.
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So, then, I wouldn't be the only one not to shed a tear upon seeing NephilimFree and others like him EX-TER-MIN-A-TED
@Illuminatalie: Fundie or brain-damaged?
You can have a brain damage and not be a fundie, but you can not be a fundie and not be brain damaged!
NephilimFree has taken liberties with bone grafts. Having worked surgery as head of Thoracic(also OB) I've never heard of that. I do know a rib can be used for grafting but the outer part must remain intact.
NF, 2 years ago the skin on my arm from the elbow to the wrist was burned off. It was a scalding accident. Sheets of skin were removed in the ER. Guess what? The skin grew back. I suppose you were trying to prove the Adam and Eve legend. I would say "nice try" but it wasn't.
Bass X0 wrote:
"What about Wolverine?" Wolverine's flesh and organs regenerate, but his bones don't. They don't have to; they're infused with adamantium, making them practically indestructible.
Of course, in some versions of his origin story, his healing factor was the only thing that allowed his bones to fuse with the adamantium in the first place, but Wolverine's origin changes almost weekly.
@Atheist: Heroes ref FTW!
Also, am I the only one that seriously missed out on just about all of Season 3? it seems like they kept shuffling it around in the timeslots this season...
Re: Ew's post
He's actually right. You can remove a human rib bone(bone only) and it will regrow as long as you leave everything around it intact. This really isn't fundie, even though I wish he had given some citation.
And for my peer-reviewed citation: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u6261n488552806j/ It takes membership to read the full text(which I have through my college library) but the abstract says enough for most people.
Any part of the human body can regenerate if our scientists play god for just a decade or so more.
I always found some amusement, though, at how in the Biblical creation story God encouraged Adam to choose one of the animals to have sex with before resorting to making Eve only after Adam didn't find one he liked.
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No, he's not right. He said that the rib was _the only bone_. Even excluding fractures and normal bone remodeling, large fractions of femur and parts of the jaw can be regenerated (the latter is why dental implants stay put). Or so says Wikipedia.
And I suspect that normal or medically-aided healing was not what he meant.
Don't be ridiculous! Humans don't regenerate, that's Time Lords.
I'm sorry, Heather, but you're wrong. If he was watching Doctor Who he'd know that regeneration was Time Lord technology that we humans simply don't possess. It's clear that NephilimFree actually hasn't been watching enough Doctor Who, otherwise he'd know that. (Or else he'd decide to start worshipping the Master or decide the Daleks had the right idea about how to deal with other forms of life . . . I think maybe it's best that any sort of science fiction or fantasy be kept as far away from NephilimFree as possible . . . who knows what he might believe!)
And, unfortunately for you, your intelligence cannot be regenerated, as it has obviously been removed.
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