Practice question · True or false
A small stroke destroying the medulla is far more immediately life-threatening than a stroke of the same size in the cerebellum.
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- Compare the FUNCTIONS: which structure runs heartbeat and breathing?
- Losing coordination is disabling, but losing autonomic control is often fatal.
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True
Why
True. The medulla controls heartbeat and breathing, so damage there is often fatal, whereas equivalent cerebellar damage causes ataxia - serious but not immediately lethal. Reasoning from function to consequence is the point.
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