What are the lightest organs?

The lightest organ in the human body is the lung.
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What is the thinnest organ?

The smallest organ in the body is the pineal gland, relative to its function. It is situated centrally in the brain, between the hemispheres in a groove.
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Which organ is the second heaviest?

What are the six heaviest organs in the human body?
  • The skin is the body's first heaviest organ, with a mass of 4-5 kg, and a total surface area of about 1.2-2.2 m2. ...
  • The second heaviest is liver which secretes bile. ...
  • The third heaviest organ is the brain which is having an average weight of 1500g.
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What is the heaviest organ in our body?

The largest solid internal organ is your liver. It weighs approximately 3–3.5 pounds or 1.36–1.59 kilograms and is about the size of a football.
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What is the most useless organ?

Appendix. The appendix is perhaps the most widely known vestigial organ in the human body of today. If you've never seen one, the appendix is a small, pouch-like tube of tissue that juts off the large intestine where the small and large intestines connect.
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What organs can u live without?

You'll be surprised as to how much you could lose and still live. You can still have a fairly normal life without one of your lungs, a kidney, your spleen, appendix, gall bladder, adenoids, tonsils, plus some of your lymph nodes, the fibula bones from each leg and six of your ribs.
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What organs can you not live without?

Seven Body Organs You Can't Live Without
  • Spleen. This organ sits on the left side of the abdomen, towards the back under the ribs. ...
  • Stomach. ...
  • Reproductive organs. ...
  • Colon. ...
  • Gallbladder. ...
  • Appendix. ...
  • Kidneys.
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How heavy is the brain?

Human Brain Size Stats

The average adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1300 to 1400 grams). A newborn human baby's brain weighs approximately 350 to 400 grams or three-quarters of a pound. The average brain is around 15 centimeters long.
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Is skin the heaviest organ?

Skin is our largest organ—adults carry some 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) and 22 square feet (2 square meters) of it.
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Is pancreas the lightest organ in human body?

The Correct answer is Pancreas.
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What's heavier torso or legs?

You'll have to do the math from there, based on your (or your victim's) weight: trunk: 48.3 percent; 50.8 percent. thigh: 10.5 percent; 8.3 percent. head and neck: 7.1 percent; 9.4 percent.
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Which body part have no bone?

The ears and nose do not have bones inside them. Their inner supports are cartilage or 'gristle', which is lighter and more flexible than bone. This is why the nose and ears can be bent. After death, cartilage rots faster than bone.
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Which is softest part in our body?

The softest part is most likely the brain. It is the part that is most changeable due to external influences, and so, it is the "softest". Brain is the most delicate and soft organ of the human body.
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Is skin an organ?

The skin is the largest organ of the body. The skin and its derivatives (hair, nails, sweat and oil glands) make up the integumentary system. One of the main functions of the skin is protection. It protects the body from external factors such as bacteria, chemicals, and temperature.
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Which organ receives most blood at rest?

Introduction
  • Distribution of cardiac output (CO) liver > kidney > muscles > brain. liver receives the highest percentage of CO. ...
  • Heart. unlike other organs, the heart receives its blood supply during diastole. 90% of blood flow through coronary arteries is during diastole.
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Which is the largest gland?

liver, the largest gland in the body, a spongy mass of wedge-shaped lobes that has many metabolic and secretory functions.
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What color is the brain?

The human brain color physically appears to be white, black, and red-pinkish while it is alive and pulsating. Images of pink brains are relative to its actual state. The brains we see in movies are detached from the blood and oxygen flow result to exhibit white, gray, or have a yellow shadow.
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What weighs more heart or brain?

Claudia Reardon. The average human brain weighs about three pounds, representing about two percent of our body weight. The human heart pumps blood to the entire body, but actually pumps about 20 percent of its total blood output to the brain.
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What is the weight of Einstein brain?

The National Museum only occasionally puts theirs on display. According to the Mutter website, Einstein's brain weighed 2.7 lbs (1.22 kg). This is a little less than the average human brain size, which is 3 lbs (1.36 kg). But Einstein's brain had other characteristics which arguably boosted his mental capabilities.
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What organ can grow back?

The liver has the greatest regenerative capacity of any organ in the body. Liver regeneration has been recognized for many years, dating all the way back to Prometheus in ancient Greek mythology. When the liver is injured beyond its ability to regenerate itself, a liver transplant is the treatment of choice.
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Can you live without eyes?

You don't need eyes to survive

Some people may lose an eye due to an injury or have one removed because of cancer. In rare cases, a person could be born without them. While a lack of eyes can create many challenges for a person, they technically aren't a vital organ for survival.
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What organ can regenerate itself?

The liver has a unique capacity among organs to regenerate itself after damage. A liver can regrow to a normal size even after up to 90% of it has been removed.
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