Dissection

Stiff by Mary Roach Stiff by Mary Roach is a book comprised of several anecdotes of the lives of cadavers covering everything from testing the safety of cars to heart transplants. Roach’s humorous approach to this book allows the reader to understand the science behind things such as ruptured aortas and human decay. The biological insights that I have gained from this book help me understand the world better because I now understand how humans decay after death (and how it is prevented…

Men”. So naturally, our group started calling him Walt. A month later, after progressing through Walt’s back, thorax, and abdomen, it was time to dive into the retroperitoneal space. On almost every other day I was asked to stand back and read the dissection manual. My group attributed this to my uncanny ability to rip out every significant and testable structure I laid my hands upon. However, that morning the leverage my height afforded me was utilized to crane over Walt and access his…

Animal Research Should be Allowed for Scientific Research With the development of technology and the demand of medical treatment, animal research appear in the public views. According to Use of Laboratory Animals (1988), animal research, which is using animals to test biomedical and behavioral research of animals to compare with human, were appeared in over 2000 years ago (p. 12). Some activities about the welfare of animals who used in research and groups of antivivisectionist to against to…

and they looked immensely similar. In addition to their location and size, the rat's organs had alike functions. That lead us to believe that humans have evolved from rats, over a long period of time, proving the purpose to our lab. However, rat dissection was a tricky process to master. As we were dissecting, we accidentally cut too…

During this year, I learned much about animals from the dissections. I dissected a cow's eye, a dogfish shark, an owl pellet and a flower. In each, I learned a lot about that animal. In the cow’s eye, I learned how a cow sees things. During the shark dissection, I learned the different parts of the shark that I never knew about. In the owl pellet dissection, I learned what the owl eats and how it eats using the parts that are left. I never knew that much about the inside of a flower. I never…

The objectives of this dissection was to examine the digestive system, the shape and location of the organs. Another objective of the rat dissection was to know the function of the organs in the respiratory system. For our last objective, for the circulatory system we had to identify the blood vessels and state their function. Rat dissections are done in this course because students get to see, touch and examine the organs in the body. Seeing these organs in person instead of just off a piece of…

Whitman stepped outside and gazed up at the stars, there was no mathematical analysis that confined him to seeing the true beauty of the universe. In my situation, notes on a board cannot nearly explain the detailed anatomy of a pig; however, the dissection of a pig can. Being able to see the stars gave Whitman a better understanding of what the universe truly offers, which is beauty, and in comparison, dissecting a pig gave me more insight on how the inside of a pig looked like. Pictures and…

Results and Analysis This cross sectional prospective study was conducted from May 2012 to June 2014 (25 months). A total of 76 neck dissections were done for 64 patients who were included in this study. Demographic Distribution 1.Age Distribution: The mean age of the study population was 42.4 years (10 years-78 years) 39 (61%) patients were less than 45 years of age and 25 (39%) were more than 45 years. 2.Gender: Of the 64 patients, there were 21 males and 43 females. Male-to-female ratio was…

Dissection is just as bad for children as it is for animals. These activities can create insensitive feelings towards animals in some students,. Some may be permanently put off pursuing a career in science. And of course, it is not necessary for students to cut up animals in order to understand basic anatomy and physiology, as many humane non-animal teaching methods, such as computer models and sophisticated simulators, are available. 2.4 Universities, Veterinary and Medical Schools When it…

Bullfrog Dissection Background The American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus, is an amphibian about the size of a teacup.(National Geographic, “American Bullfrog”). This dissection explored the anatomy of a bullfrog that had been pithed. Pithing is a technique used to prevent the frog from experiencing any cruel or unusual pain during the dissection. A pithed frog has had its nervous tissue in its brain severed thus allowing it to maintain normal bodily function during the dissection without…