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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

I don't remember this episode. Assuming her cranium was intact and there would be no increased ICP that would force a cerebral herniation outside the confines of the skull the only nasty bloody throbbing anywhere near the top of head are either inflamed blood vessel more commonly a vasculitis (probably giant cell arteritis) or even a tumor (most likely a carcinoma or a melanoma), however these diseases don't really "pop" unless you're really really sick.

It's the episode where the karate girl coughs up blood because

Spoiler for spoiler, cause of sickness:

the scar that she got from drain cleaner burning a hole in her intestines allows bacteria to get to her lungs.

if that helps you remember.

I like your explanation, but the doctors seemed to wave it off for some reason, so I kinda thought it was just what the machine she was in saw, not actually her brain exposed (she was in the tumor searching machine). And do external tumors throb and bloody?

Another question, on the episode with the bratty chess prodigy kid,

Spoiler for spoiler:

why did he beat the other kid over the head in the beginning of the episode? They explained his sickness, yet when the kid almost had House in a checkmate, he started having a seizure, so did the sickness cause rage? And if so, why does the boy get nervous when he wins?