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To: Kirkwood
How will it kill you?

Seriously? Brain concussion. If you're hit hard enough to break the orbital bone, which is extremely heavy, you brain is rattling around in your skull like a pair of maracas.

19 posted on 08/19/2014 11:31:44 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

Uh. You are wrong. The floor and medial wall of the orbit is paper thin ( lamina papyracea in Latin). That’s what breaks in an orbital floor blowout fracture. The only way it might be fatal is if you got an infection that tracked into the CNS.

Now any blow to the head, in the right circumstance could lead to an intracranial hemorrhage. But that’s not directly associated with an orbital blow out fx.


28 posted on 08/19/2014 1:01:29 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: SamuraiScot

A brain concussion is totally different from an orbital blowout. Even so, I never heard of someone being killed by a concussion alone.


29 posted on 08/19/2014 2:14:35 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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