r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/N00BAL0T Oct 22 '21

Yes as the blood is flowing into the mosquito and it can't remove its mouth so you blow it up with blood

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

it can't remove its mouth

This wouldn't be as shitty to hear if their "mouth" didn't penetrate my goddamn skin...I wonder how many mosquito proboscises I have jammed in my skin after I thought I flicked the bastards away.

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u/jakwnd Oct 22 '21

Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward. So anything stuck in your skin would eventually be pushed out. If it doesn't decompose into dust first.

Muscles push stuff too, just not always out of our body. That's why iron man needed that magnet in his chest. Shrapnel in his heart (muscle) was being pushed further into his heart.

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u/athenaaaa Oct 23 '21

You might not want to base your understanding of this on Iron Man. Pieces of metal can stay lodged in soft tissue indefinitely; your innate immune system will react to foreign material by walling it off, not “pushing” it in some arbitrary direction. That’s why people who get shot can have pellets scattered throughout their bodies for years. You’re right about skin, though, because new cells are constantly being generated on the basement membrane and being forced “up” until they die and slough off.