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To: NautiNurse
How is something liquid if it shrinks?

The brain matter wasn't liquifed before, it is now. Seems simple enough to me, but my undergrad is in chemistry, not biology.

983 posted on 03/30/2005 4:20:29 AM PST by jude24 (The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it.)
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To: jude24
The brain matter wasn't liquifed before, it is now.

No--the brain matter atrophied (shrunk). CSF filled in the void in the skull.

985 posted on 03/30/2005 4:23:02 AM PST by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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