Monday, April 27, 2009

Pig Dissections are very dirty




I think the title says it all. Although it has revealed several things in its process. First revelation. Henley is a pig molestor. After seeing his face sparkle with fascination over every little thing about the pig such as the fact that a pig has an ANUS (Oh, gosh, and I thought only humans had that!), I propose one should NEVER let Henley near ANY pigs in the near future. Secondly, the pig fetus was pretty large in size. I'm surprised that although the pig doesn't eat, it still has feces inside its body system.
The pig's body was very alike to its human counterpart. It's organs were merely of a smaller size; kidneys, lungs, heart, etc. It's rib cage surrounds and protects the lungs and heart, curving in. For some reason, our nearly full term pig's small intestines were connected by a very thick membrane to the stomach, therefore unable to uncoil. There was also some problem with cutting the kidneys because it was layered over with an extremely thick membrane, super glued to the back of the pig's back.
Cutting open the brain was the hardest part. The skull was extremely hard! My partners and I were extremely scared of crushing the brain along with crumbling the skull. Either ways, the entire dissection process proved to be a very learning process. I learned that I can never look at a pig the same way again or even eat it. Which is a good skill to acquire since the swine flu is spreading and all that jazz.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Digestive Video




I was reading the back of the digestive video cover when I realized that the Dr. Freddie was actually the creator of Body Worlds! That seriously creeped me out even more than I was because I was so sure that the guy with the raspy voice had a serious infatuation with the human body. When he slit open that poor corpse's stomach and poked around his/her small intestines commenting "Just Beautiful", I nearly threw up. I am not kidding.


Gunter von Hagens in the flesh - - - >




He invented plastination which is preserving the body by switching all body fluids for liquid plastic. The plastic then hardens, living organs intacted.




The entire length of the video truly was not for the unsteely stomach which for some things, I am. I don't throw up just by looking at a dissected corpse, but somehow, watching people play around with organs makes me really nauseated. I need to steel my stomach. I admit, I am not going to be a great anatomist in the future of anything, but I still appreciate the human body. Another thing that was really stomach wrenching was when he washed the feces from the human body. That really irks me. Another gross factor was the simple fact that anatomist took a pleasure in opening up the human body. Maybe its just me, but after watching the video, I do not want to donate my body to science. I think I'll like it rotting six feet under just fine.