OP time: It’s been years since I watched Wolfen, circa 1981 ‘stop exploiting the land – or large wolves will come and eat you’ (borrowed from a fan site), but I must wonder if the turkey/Cecil head was a Slug-like depiction of a particular movie scene. Perhaps the Wolfen ‘converted’ the innocent humans with an insidious chemical (i.e. bottle of lupus)? Unfortunately time, and insidious chemicals have wiped the memory of this fine movie from my already limited memory.
This conclusively demonstrates once and for all that my metaphor is correct–that Slug is perpetually trying to kill off Cecil. (Re: “Let that be your Last Battlefield” – Star Trek Episode #70). (So the analogy breaks down–so sue me.)
Anatomically, the blade would pass through the medulla oblongata where the reticular activating center resides. This is the body’s “alarm clock” when compromised, it shuts down consciousness.
[When blood pressures gets to high the receptors stretch and send impulses to the brain telling it to slow heart rate]
The heart rate slows in response to vagas nerve stimulation, which can be acomplished by carotid pressure. The carotid sinus is more akin to an oxbow lake formed in a river. They are filled with arterial blood, by no means empty.
