What is the weight of an adult human head?
5 kg
8 kg
10 kg
12 kg
An adult human cadaver head cut off around vertebra C3, with no hair, weighs somewhere between 4.5 and 5 kg, constituting around 8% of the whole body mass.
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Greece
21
Republic of Ireland
28
Germany
384
Pakistan
42
Austria
94
Poland
15094
India
272
Australia
46
the Netherlands
17
Switzerland
49
Italy
15
Canada
64
the United Arab Emirates
18
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210
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20
the United States
581
the Philippines
62
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24
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17
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18