Cadaver Work

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I am in anatomy and we have been gifted a cadaver for the semester. Seeing the body was a tad rough at first, however I've grown to love the work that we do on him. What an amazing last gift that someone would donate their body to Science to help me become a nurse. I'm totally appreciative that I have been given this opportunity. Anyone else work with a cadaver in their anatomy class?

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OMG seriously HILARIOUS!!! I was unaware that penile implants were so popular that by chance you saw 2 different ones on cadavers LOL

It was a total fluke! They were the only two any of the instructors had ever seen in the years they'd had the cadaver lab! The first one, we'd been trying to figure it out the early part of the semester (he just seemed awfully.... happy...), and sure enough, upon dissection, there was plastic in there. I actually got to do that dissection, and when I hit the plastic, I called in the instructor, who was floored! I managed to dissect it back into the pelvis.

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Our school (also a CC) had an AMAZING cadaver lab with 4 cadavers! One was saved from the prior semester, already dissected, and 3 were new each semester. We each got to do a dissection with a partner. It was an amazing experience! I spent two semesters in the cadaver lab, and I got to see a variety of medical implants (including TWO different penile implants), artificial joints, a pacemaker, etc, plus liver cancer.[/quote']

RunBabyRun, did you happen to go to a CC in Northern California? You explaining the lab sounds really familiar to my experience. And if you didn't I would be in shock of the similarities, including the penile implants.

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RunBabyRun, did you happen to go to a CC in Northern California? You explaining the lab sounds really familiar to my experience. And if you didn't I would be in shock of the similarities, including the penile implants.

I did! It's a pretty well known lab up here, so I assume we're talking about the same place.

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I did! It's a pretty well known lab up here so I assume we're talking about the same place.[/quote']

We most likely are. I just had to give my wondering mind an answer. Thank you!

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Wow....I am surprised that you have a cadaver. They are usually only saved for medical school. We had one YEARS ago at my college. It was weird at first but an amazing learning tool.

My university has a gross anatomy theory and lab with cadavers. I'm already a nurse but I'm DYING to take the class- it always fill up within minutes of registration opening each semester!

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We had cadavers. Two of them in fact. My most notable memory is that after that A/P class it was years before I could eat a pot roast again. (The pickled, human gluteus maximus looks like a well-done pot roast.) Funny story--one of the professors (according to his account) had to pick up a cadaver at the airport, which was 70 miles away. He was without a "discreet" transport vehicle, so he had to strap the body (in the body bag) to the roof of his car. Flying down the interstate with the force of the wind perfectly outlining the contents of the bag, and yup, he got more than a few horrified looks from the occupants of other vehicles.[/quote']

HAHAHAHA! Makes me think of poor, dead aunt Edna from national lampoons vacation.

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