What is the weight of an adult human head?

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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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flagGreece
71%
23%
4%
0%
21
flagRepublic of Ireland
67%
21%
3%
7%
28
flagGermany
61%
25%
10%
2%
384
flagPakistan
59%
26%
11%
2%
42
flagAustria
57%
35%
4%
3%
94
flagPoland
56%
31%
8%
3%
15094
flagIndia
54%
25%
11%
7%
272
flagAustralia
54%
28%
8%
8%
46
flagthe Netherlands
52%
29%
11%
5%
17
flagSwitzerland
51%
26%
14%
8%
49
flagItaly
46%
20%
20%
13%
15
flagCanada
45%
26%
25%
3%
64
flagthe United Arab Emirates
44%
38%
5%
11%
18
flagthe United Kingdom
43%
30%
17%
8%
210
flagNigeria
40%
15%
30%
15%
20
flagthe United States
37%
25%
22%
13%
581
flagthe Philippines
37%
14%
29%
17%
62
flagUnknown
33%
37%
12%
16%
24
flagRomania
29%
35%
29%
5%
17
flagNew Zealand
27%
44%
22%
5%
18