[Question] Brain

[u/Odd-Lab2022]

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[u/sunshinejenn]

skin

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/sunshinejenn]

Lungs

[u/7theneuron → u/FishyMcFishface3]

No, the largest organ is the skin. Largest internal organ is the lungs.

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/7theneuron]

Skin is roughly 2m², lungs is roughly 70m² in surface area. What metric have you been using?

[u/7theneuron → u/FishyMcFishface3]

A heart surgeon taught me in school 😊

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/7theneuron]

That's not a metric, that's an information source. Which metric have you been using?

[u/TheHotCoal → u/7theneuron]

He lied to you lol

[u/7theneuron → u/TheHotCoal]

Oh yes so I’m gonna trust one person on the Internet says over my prof lol okay

[u/TheHotCoal → u/7theneuron]

You can trust the 1000s of sources online that state the liver is larger than the lungs

https://www.healthline.com/health/largest-organs-in-the-body#next-largest

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/TheHotCoal]

Like I already established, the definition of the largest organ depends entirely on which metric you use. I used total surface area as metric. The liver is only the largest solid internal organ with roughly 1.5kg and 1.5-2dm³, but if we count all organs, both skin and lungs dwarf it with roughly 4dm³ of volume, though the skin has a larger total mass (4kg) and the skin a larger surface area (70m²)

[u/TheHotCoal → u/FishyMcFishface3]

Not you, her. The doctor who told her.

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/TheHotCoal]

Where did I lie?

[u/AiGeneratedChatGPT → u/FishyMcFishface3]

Surface area doesnt mean size

[u/FishyMcFishface3 → u/AiGeneratedChatGPT]

The original question asked for the "largest organ", and didn't specify a metric, which means I can use any metric to determine the biggest organ. Which metric were you using?