Chapter 1465 Two-headed ogre, will cutting off one head eliminate the headache?
Standing in front of Gretel is an ogre.
This is nothing, the ogres are just a race, a smart race with low intelligence. Under the rule of the Silver Dragon, they will not really eat people. As long as they don't eat people, Gretel will not have any discrimination against him.
However, Grete silently looked at the ogre in front of him, and he couldn't say anything out loud. He was dirty and smelly, which was nothing. Anyway, he had the bubble technique to hold him back;
He has a mouth full of yellow teeth, and when he speaks, the meat residue in the gaps between his teeth and something unknown are sprayed in front of his face.
Anyway, I'm a doctor, and I'm only interested in patients. I don't want you to be older or not take a shower.
The problem is, you are a two-headed ogre!
Two heads!
Two-headed ogre, how did your two heads grow out of your neck?
How are the two blood vessels in your brain connected to the systemic circulation? Where do the blood vessels branch, where do they join, and merge into the heart?
You said your head hurts, and your head looks like this. Could it be that there is a problem with hemodynamics and it will hurt?
"Name?"
"ah?"
"May I have your name?"
"Balu. My name is Balu." The left head of the two-headed ogre immediately answered. As soon as the words fell, the right head followed:
"My name is Haru!"
"Should it be called Balu or Haru?"
Gretel stopped his pen tip and glanced up. Beside the two-headed ogre, the old dwarf bowed his head respectfully:
"Sir, this is how their race is. Each head has wisdom and each head has an independent name. One more head and one more name. If he is like this now, you can call him Baluharu."
Wisdom? That’s called independent consciousness... Each head has independent consciousness. Is this considered one person or two people?
Grete silently cursed and decided not to dwell on this philosophical question. Following his usual questioning habits, he continued to ask:
"Male or female?"
"Of course he's a man!" The two-headed ogre's voice suddenly sounded higher.
With a snap, a slap hit him on the head, making his voice stop. The old dwarf Matt, who was standing on the chair next to the ogre, nodded and bowed, and smiled at Grete:
"Sir, don't be as knowledgeable as him. He is just a big fool, a big fool. - Balu Haru, be respectful to your lord!"
As he spoke, he stood up on tiptoes and pressed his palms on the two-headed ogre's head. He used all his strength and even relied on his weight to push him down.
Obviously, neither the height nor the weight of the old dwarf could reach this point, but Balu was quite in awe of the old dwarf, and he bent down obediently when he slapped and scolded him.
Gretel sighed and felt that his head was hurting. He continued to ask questions and at the same time refreshed his records:
"age?"
"26 years old."
"What is the average age of your race?"
"ah?!"
Forget it, you can’t expect too much from the ogre’s IQ and social attributes. Gretel turned to the old dwarf and asked:
"At what age can their race start having children, and how old can they live?"
"Usually you can start having children at the age of 12." The old dwarf adapted well to Gretel's question and answered fluently:
"The youngest. Generally speaking, a warrior will die in battle at the age of 40. As for a spell caster, someone like him with two heads and the ability to cast spells can live to be over 80 years old."
Then 26 years old can be regarded as a youth - or a young adult. Grete nodded and got to the point: Ramping
"You said you have a headache, which one?"
"I hurt!"
"It hurts me too!" Balu and Haru, or rather, the heads on the left and right sides of the two-headed ogre, answered together. Soon, the answer turned into a quarrel:
"It hurt me first!"
"It hurt me first!"
"It hurts me more!"
"I feel more pain!"
Balu turned his face to the right, and Haru turned his face to the left. The two heads were foaming at the mouth, making the whole world dark. If the two-headed ogre hadn't only had one body and two arms, he would probably have hit him with "bang bang". Together.
Of course, just because there are no extra arms doesn't mean that the two heads won't fight.
Grete watched helplessly as Balu and Haru went from glaring angrily to spitting at each other, to then tilting their heads to each other and banging their foreheads together...
...It's strange that I don't have a headache like this...
Grete sighed, feeling that his whole body was a little messy. He shook his head vigorously, as if he wanted to shake all the complaints out of his head, and tried to bring the consultation back to the correct route:
"Were you born with two heads? Do both heads hurt?"
"Of course not!" The ogre widened his eyes exaggeratedly, with a look on his face like "Sir, shouldn't you know everything? Why don't you even know this?" He raised his finger and pointed at the left side of his head: "Tamp it."
"This is my first head. Most of us only have one head. Only the strongest and bravest warriors, blessed by their ancestors, can grow a second head!"
"...Then when did you start having a headache?"
"When the second head starts to grow...or not long after the second head starts to grow." Balu rushed to answer. As soon as he finished speaking, Haru was furious:
"Is it my fault that I have a headache?"
"It's not your fault, whose fault is it?!"
The two heads of the ogre continued to glare at each other. Gretel couldn't bear it anymore and shouted:
"Shut up, everyone!"
Balu and Haru shut up together. Gretel rubbed his forehead and pointed at Balu:
"I ask, you answer. The other one is not allowed to speak. After I ask, he will ask you again. - You said you have a headache, where does it hurt? Point to me!"
After a round of consultation, the ogre Baluharu found that in addition to having headaches, he often felt dizzy. Generally speaking, headaches come in and out, a bit like convulsions, and he often suffers from insomnia.
So what exactly is going on...
Gretel thought about it, searching hard in his mind, turning from "Pathology" to "Internal Medicine" and then to "Neurology", trying to find the corresponding possibility.
While thinking about it, he asked Baluharu to stand up and follow him to the next door for examination:
"Come on, stand up straight, don't move..."
The light of [Detection Magic] was stimulated and passed through Baluharu's back, illuminating an X-ray image in Gretel's meditation field of vision. For a moment, Gretel's brows jumped:
wonderful……
So amazing...
From the ogre's spine, to be precise, from the first thoracic vertebra upwards, two cervical vertebrae branch off, one on the left and one on the right. Since the cervical vertebrae are separated, the trachea and esophagus also branch here.
As for the various muscles that stabilize the cervical spine, such as the sternocleidomastoid muscle, how they are separated and how they connect the two cervical vertebrae at the same time is another process...
After the X-ray, the next step is CT and MRI, which take turns. Since the cervical vertebrae are bifurcated, the brachiocephalic trunk of the artery is also divided into two branches, and two sets of common carotid arteries extend out to supply blood to the left and right sides of the head respectively;
Correspondingly, the veins also split into two branches, withdrawing the blood circulating in the two heads.
The species in this world are really wonderful. If only he could get a two-headed ogre corpse for him to dissect...
He must dissect every blood vessel, nerve, and tissue in detail, and then draw the most detailed anatomical diagram...
But now there are no corpses available, so Grete can only satisfy his craving for CT films and MRI films. He murmured:
"This, the blood pumped out by one heart is enough to supply blood to two heads..."
Then I looked at the CT and MRI results carefully, scanning them piece by piece. It didn't look like there was necrosis of brain tissue, nor did it look like there was a blood clot or cerebral infarction.
Brain tumors, brain space-occupying lesions, intracranial infections, glaucoma, rhinitis, sinusitis, etc., were checked one by one, and it didn't seem like there was a problem...
"Could it be that the cervical spine is compressing the nerves? It's not impossible..."
Gretel stared at the MRI film, his brows knitted together. To be honest, where there was only one cervical vertebra, another one suddenly split out, and the two sides made room for each other——
Just kidding, the cervical vertebrae are only so big, and the space for the nerves to go is only so thick! It is normal for another one to grow out, and it will compress the nerves. It would be weird if the nerves are not compressed!
"Baru Haru, do all of your race have headaches?" He asked casually while thinking:
"I mean, if you grow two heads, will both heads hurt?"
"That's not true." Balu and Haru shook their heads together. They didn't cooperate well. Haru's nose hit the back of Balu's head, and there was another ping-ping-pong-ping.
After being patted twice by the old dwarf before he calmed down, Haru poked his head forward and answered Gretel:
"Generally speaking, it only hurts when the head grows - after all, such a big head has to grow. After it grows, it usually doesn't hurt. Otherwise, how can we live?"
This is true... If every two-headed ogre will face nerve compression in the cervical spine, causing headaches and dizziness, then this race will not survive. The risks of evolution are greater than the benefits of evolution...
"But I have a headache. It must be because I didn't grow well at that time. I didn't eat enough during the time when my head was growing." Haru said this and glared at Balu again, earning a few eye rolls:
"I just said you don't give me food! If you don't give it to me, it won't grow well, and if it doesn't grow well, it will give me a headache!"
"Okay!" Gretel interrupted again:
"Answer my question! You! Raise your head! Lower your head! Raise your head again! Lower your head again! - Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Do you have a headache?"
"No……"
"Are your fingers numb? Are your arms numb?"
"nor……"
This doesn’t look like the cervical spine is compressing the nerves. Grete continued to frown, thought for a while, and pointed at Baluharu:
"I need to shave your heads and see the veins in your heads. - Who comes first?"