I’m not really too sure about this in real life since I don’t see fights that often, but why do movies and cartoons show that? For example, I saw a cartoon where someone smacked the other person with a baseball bat. Suddenly they’re laying on the ground, bleeding on the back of the head.
I get areas where there’s a passage way like your nose, mouth, and even ears but why do random spots on the head bleed when no cuts were involved? How does the skin rips open after a big blow to it?
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The fleshy bits on your head are thin with your skull right under it. You hit the thin squishy bits it has to go somewhere. Since it can’t go in with the skull in the way it goes sideways/outward from the impact point, and in the process it tears. On other parts of your body there’s more squishy bits. You may get bruising and bleeding internally but the skin itself isn’t pinched.
Something else that makes injuries on your head bleed more than on other areas is that you have a decent bit more blood vessels close to the surface. On other parts of the body the wider vessels are deeper in your body. But again on your head with the skull in the way there’s no deeper place for the thicker blood vessels to be.
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