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.

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