I read a fascinating article on the possibility of a fatal venous air embolism in women caused during oral sex. I have very little understanding of how this is anatomically possible.
I read that if someone blows, the air can travel up and *somehow* enter the bloodstream, but the link from *anything in there* to the bloodstream is beyond my comprehension. Is there seriously a direct access to the bloodstream? And if air can get in, what keeps it from bleeding out? I'm clearly no biologist, so it sounds just as likely as getting an embolism by blowing into my cupped hand because I thought it was pretty much a closed system... PLEASE EXPLAIN!
2007-02-06
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