Just curious. If you enter something into your nose too far can you reach your brain and accidentally puncture it? Any doctors or biologists that can answer this question?
2006-07-14 14:14:36 · 8 answers · asked by Sandra101 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I'm not sure about that, but I know that when people were mummified, their brains were pulled out through their nose.
2006-07-14 14:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by Nysa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but you'd have to go through a thin layer of bone. The egyptians would break the cribiform plate of the ethmoid bone in the roof of the nose to take out the brain (the holes that the previous medical student was talking about are in this bone but they are so tiny it would be hard to get anything bigger than a hair through them). There is no direct easy access to the brain through the nose though. We'd all be dead of meningitis if there was. This site shows the inside of the skull and is pointing to the cribiform plate and the tiny holes where the olfactory nerve (for smelling) goes through. You'd have to break the bone here or perhaps a little posteriorly to get to the brain. http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/figs/l22/225a02.htm
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bnose.html
2006-07-14 21:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by mrchinlersir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't take a doctor or a biologist. Yes, you can. During mummification, the ancient Egyptians used to remove the brain through the nasal cavity.
2006-07-14 21:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by dhills23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a doctor, but I am quite informed on many issues. I had a collegue that had a brain procedure done through his nose. I am not quite sure what the procedure was for, but one of the complications he experienced was that the entry point started to leak and brain fluid was draining out of his nose.
2006-07-14 21:20:20 · answer #4 · answered by Sereny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically is the object was long and hard enough to do it, it could, it would go in the nose though the sinus and it would also have to go through the skull in that area. so while possible it would be very hard
2006-07-14 21:22:10 · answer #5 · answered by dr_evandonovan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, as a matter of fact u can.. but u'll pierce alot of membranes on your way up.. but no boundaries of bones... but it has to be done with sth really thin coz the orfices in skull for the olfacory nerve (from which this thing enters) are very small.. please don't try to put anything in ur nose.. it's dangerous ;)
2006-07-14 21:23:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ancient egyptians did just that during the mummification process
2006-07-14 21:18:28 · answer #7 · answered by old timer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, it is close by. be carefull in there!
2006-07-14 21:20:25 · answer #8 · answered by canary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋