Dissection!

[snakeguy101]

So I just started my advanced anatomy class and I found out that there will be a cadaver dissection in one of my labs. I am so excited for this! Any one here a doctor or done a human dissection before?

In the past, I have done, fetal pigs, sharks, clams, cows, squid, sheep, & cats (including a live one that I performed an exploratory surgery on when I was working at a vets office), and I have skinned and skeletonized quite a bit for my demestid colony including a uromastix, EDB rattlesnakes, and a veiled chameleon. Don't worry these were all already dead or in a classroom environment- I'm not a serial killer or anything.

I know it is morbid but this sort of thing fascinates me and I cannot wait to see everything in real life and discover how it works and how everything connects. I have learned that pictures and text do not do an organism justice but the dissections just seem to reveal SO much more than you could ever read.

SO EXCITED!

 

[knifegill]

Cool!

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

Sweet!! i got to do it when i finally enroll in paramedic class but i dont have to yet. It sounds pretty sweet!!

 

[Juxtaroberto]

That sounds awesome!

When I was in elementary school I had a pet rabbit. One day it randomly started convulsing and died. I think I did the most atypical thing in the world, and dissected it. I identified the small and large intestines, liver, heart, kidneys, stomach, lungs, it was so cool!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I dissected a few different types of animals in college but never a human. My dad on the other hand did dissect a cadaver when he was in college. He said the nasty part of it was the fact they did it after lunch so half of the class ended up puking.

 

[Miguel]

Never, ever, would I be able to even watch that carried out on a human!!! Thank God for doctors and doctors to be!!