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Accounts differed as to the vascular systems of Gallifreyans in their first incarnation. Some accounts indicate that Gallifreyans normally had two hearts even in their first body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') Other accounts indicated that Gallifreyans [[Loom]]ed after the [[Pythia's curse]] of sterility originally emerged with a single heart and gained their second only after their first [[regeneration]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'') while those of [[Newblood]] houses sprang from the Looms with two hearts from the outset. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | Accounts differed as to the vascular systems of Gallifreyans in their first incarnation. Some accounts indicate that Gallifreyans normally had two hearts even in their first body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') Other accounts indicated that Gallifreyans [[Loom]]ed after the [[Pythia's curse]] of sterility originally emerged with a single heart and gained their second only after their first [[regeneration]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'') while those of [[Newblood]] houses sprang from the Looms with two hearts from the outset. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | ||
A Gallifreyan could survive with only one heart, should the other be punctured, destroyed or otherwise stopped, though he or she would be weakened greatly. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', [[TV]]:''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'') A Gallifreyan in total cardiac arrest would need [[CPR]] on ''both'' hearts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'') Regeneration would become impossible if both hearts were burnt out simultaneously. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'') | A Gallifreyan could survive with only one heart, should the other be punctured, destroyed or otherwise stopped, though he or she would be weakened greatly. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'') A Gallifreyan in total cardiac arrest would need [[CPR]] on ''both'' hearts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'') Regeneration would become impossible if both hearts were burnt out simultaneously. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'') | ||
[[File:2hearts.jpg|thumb|left|A human doctor indicating the second heart on an [[X-ray]] taken of the [[Third Doctor]].]] | [[File:2hearts.jpg|thumb|left|A human doctor indicating the second heart on an [[X-ray]] taken of the [[Third Doctor]].]] | ||
Gallifreyans could, with training, gain conscious control over their hearts, enabling them to stop their hearts and feign death, ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'') and could slow them down significantly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wishing Well]]'') A dual cardiovascular system being more efficient, Gallifreyans in a healing coma could have a resting pulse rate of as few as ten beats per minute. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') The two heartbeats could be mistaken by [[human]] cardiologists such as Dr [[Grace Holloway]] as "fibrillating badly". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Two pulses could be detected in the wrist. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') | Gallifreyans could, with training, gain conscious control over their hearts, enabling them to stop their hearts and feign death, ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'') and could slow them down significantly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wishing Well]]'') A dual cardiovascular system being more efficient, Gallifreyans in a healing coma could have a resting pulse rate of as few as ten beats per minute. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') The two heartbeats could be mistaken by [[human]] cardiologists such as Dr [[Grace Holloway]] as "fibrillating badly". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Two pulses could be detected in the wrist. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') | ||
