How many organs of the body could be removed (e.g. the gall bladder and one kidney)...?

Question

yet the person could live a (careful but) reasonably normal life?

Answer 1

let us work from top to bottom
Brain tissue
both eyes, ears, nose, tongue, face muscles and bones
voice box part of the wind pipe and gullet, all your teeth
parts of the neck. part of the heart, one lung and some of the other one, breast
gall bladder, some liver,stomach, pancreas, spleen, two kidneys (they use dialysis),small intestine and large intestine with the appendix. Prostate, womb, cervix, vagina, penis both legs and arms

and i am sure i missed many many more.
how wonderful is the human body!

Answer 2

There are many organs that can be removed from the body. The eyes, ears, spleen, gallbladder, kidney(s)with dialysis,skin, pancreases, colon. Realistically, you can remove the heart and the real question becomes quality vs quantity. It's all in the perspective of the people who have to live with the choice.

Answer 3

Ok, that is a really creepy question. But assuming you have good intentions....
You could safely remove:
1 kidney
1/2 liver
thyroid (but you'd have to be medicated)
Pituitary gland
spleen
appendix
gallbladder
1 lung (just dont try to run any marathons)
1 eye (but I don't recommend it)
you could remove part of the colon or the stomach, but again, i don't recommend it, the quality of life would be rather poor
the bladder (but you'd have to have a stoma....)
uterus
ovaries
prostate
breast
parathyroids
pancreas maybe if you wanted to take shots for a very long time.
lymph nodes
the thymus?

I think that's about it.

Answer 4

well lets see, the appendix, spleen, 1 kidney, 1 lung, gall bladder, small and large intestine,(a colostomy can be used in this situation) 1 eye,uterus, ovaries

p.s. i think you need to define to theese people, what organs are, half the answers are not organs,lol

Answer 5

1 lung, 1 kidney, you could take out both eyes and still live, spleen, gallbladder, part of your liver, part of your esophagus, part of the stomach, and part of the intestines, bladder, skin (yea, it's an organ)
Female:uterus, overaries, cervix
Male: 2 testis, prostate

No doctor in his/her right mind would remove all of these in one patient

Answer 6

One lung, 1 kidney, 1 eye, uterus, ovaries,prostate, spleen, gall bladder. One wonders why you wnat to know?

Answer 7

lets try to answer that
1. any single muscle
2. any single bone
3. one whole lung if the other is fine
4. spleen
5. any lymph node...including the tonsils
6. a lobe of liver
7. both of the gonads in females and males
8. a part of the intestine
9. a lobe of the brain even
10. i do not know what else...but if you are alive you can live with any part missing almost

Answer 8

Apart from those you mention, only a lung that I can think of, possibly eye if you count that (organ of sight?)

Second guess, look at the picture and decide for yourself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/organs_anatomy.shtml