Related for Oholot 3:6
כַּזַּיִת מִן הַמֵּת, פִּתְחוֹ בְטֶפַח, וְהַמֵּת, פִּתְחוֹ בְאַרְבָּעָה טְפָחִים, לְהַצִּיל הַטֻּמְאָה עַל הַפְּתָחִים. אֲבָל לְהוֹצִיא הַטֻּמְאָה, בְּפוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח. גָּדוֹל מִכַּזַּיִת, כַּמֵּת. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, הַשִּׁדְרָה וְהַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת, כַּמֵּת:
An olive-sized piece of a corpse, an opening [in the room in which it is found] of one handbreadth, and for a corpse, an opening of four handbreadths [is enough] to save the impurity from [spreading to the other] openings; But for the impurity to go out, a handbreadth's space [is enough]. Greater than the bulk of an olive is [considered] like a corpse. Rabbi Yose says: the spine and the skull are [considered] like a corpse.
Tosefta Megillah
There is no difference between an olive-sized piece of a corpse and an entire corpse except that the [tumah associated with the] piece of a corpse [exits through] an opening the size of a handbreadth, whereas the [tumah associated with the] entire corpse [exits through] an opening the size of four handbreadths. There is no difference between a olive-sized piece of a corpse and a piece of a bone larger than a barley seed except for the propensity to contaminate other things in a closed space [which a bone does not have]. There is no difference between a limb taken from a corpse and a limb taken from a living person except that flesh from a limb taken from a corpse is tamei and flesh from a limb taken from a live person is tahor.
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