A&P Lab ?

[crazytonurse]

So I am pretty excited about taking A&P in the fall. The only thing they worries me is the dissection portion in lab. What exactly will be doing?

[DarkBluePhoenix]

Well I had anatomy then physio

Anatomy lab is all getting the bone box out and identifying landmarks, articulation points, etc...

Using the semores (the human models where it has the muscles and removable organs [plastic duh])

and basically knowing the muscles.

Histology we did with slides,

you know look at a piece of tissue and know if its connective, nervous, bone, blood, muscle, etc... I really liked histology.

And know the type of epithelial and why it is the way it is

AND kitty disection

He showed us [in a jar] how one time the one of his previous classes, one of the cats had been pregnant, very sad. They opened up the uterus and took all the babies and he has them in a jar we can see them in. they are little kitty embryos. they are at the stage where they kinda stopped looking like a embryo and more like a growing fetus. Very cool, but sad....

As for physio, so far we have done neurosensory experiments; like testing for astigmatism, depth preception, webers test, conductive deafness, two point discrimination.

also did a BMR experiment with a rat and seeing how it metabolized.

A diffusion experiment and a RBC where we got to use our own blood to put in a hypertonic or hypotonic solution

That is about it so far...its only the beginning, lots more to come!

[microtutor]

We did cats in A&P I and II, and we did the sheep brain and eye in A&P I. I personally really did not like the smell, but its nothing you can't get through.

The person who got to do cadavers was *lucky*!!! I wish I could have done that. It would be so helpful in terms of learning to actually see the inside of a human body, as opposed to an animal.

[studentLJinCA]

For our class we did the sheep heart, eyeball, cat, and then a cadaver.

I would say the hardest for me was the cat, oddly enough.

The cadaver was really strange at first... I couldn't get over the fact that it was a human body. But after a while, it became less weird and it was the most interesting section of the class! After looking at a textbook and lecture slides, it was cool to actually see the real thing (muscles and internal structures).

[Seth O Scope]

oh I loved the dissections we dissected a brain, eye, heart and cat; very cool and interesting. One thing to prepare for these things stink pretty bad and dont wear clothing you care about because some parts can squirt. One poor guy in our lab got sprayed in the face from the cat. Good luck

[lina.561]

I hope Palm Beach State has the students practice on cadavers! That would be exciting!