stackyFACTSGood luck trying to take someone's pulse with your thumb. The thumb has its own internal artery called the princeps pollicis, meaning if you use it to feel for a heartbeat on someone's neck, you are likely just awkwardly feeling your own blood pump. It is the ultimate anatomical narcissist.
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