What do you dissect in A&P Lab?

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I have to take it this fall and I'm curious. :)

Specializes in NICU.

So far just a cow's heart.

Cats :sniff: (I love cats). Mine was pregnant and so was I. The smell made me want to gag.

Specializes in LDRP.

sheep brain and heart, fetal pigs....ewwww. i have a strong stomach and ripping the brain apart really made me whoozy.

Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

Interesting!

I haven't dissected anything since 5th grade biology, but am taking A&P 1 this summer. I don't know what our school uses. I have done frogs before, but I have a feeling their anatomy is quite different than anything else I'd see! :chuckle

I'm actually looking forward to it though. I'm taking Human Biology now, without the lab though, since I knew I'd be taking it w/A&P 1 and 2, and I'm getting anxious to get going on it! The classes I'm taking this semester are helping me a lot, but only 1 (English Comp) is a requirement for my degree. The others are just credits at this point, but have helped, especially the Medical Terminology.

Sheep brain, Beef hearts and eyes, and cadavers

Specializes in Urgent Care.

cadaver, it's pretty awesome.

Man where do you all go to school we got to disect.........................ABSOLUTLY NOTHING!!!!

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Ohh maaaan....I don't think I could dissect a cat..:( I know you have to do what you is required tho..but oohh that would bother me so much...

At my CC, we use the sheep brain, heart asnd fetal pig.

We dissected minks in my A&P class. My CC stopped using cats a couple of years before I attended the program.

In antatomy we dissected a cows eye, a very moldy sheeps heart and a very dead cat. The cat still had his fur so we had to skin the poor thing. For days after I had cat hair (and I don't own cats) all over my clothes. We called our Perro (spainish for dog). Our lab final was the worst. Our instructor had put out the cats and stuff the night before. While we were taking the test, we found out that the air conditioning wasn't working on campus (in the middle of 101 degree summer heat). The cats looked liked dried beef jerky and the mold sheep hearts had started to smell. I though my poor lab partner was going to lose her lunch casue she was also 8 months pregnant! :uhoh3:

Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

Please don't remind me! A cat! and I have 5 cats at home. Also a heart, brain, bull testicles....more than I would care to remember! arrrggghhhh

In my first A&P we did fetal pigs and cow brains. I failed that class. My past A&P we had only paper labs. That means, my prof isn't into that stuff. He has a full time job doing death research on animals and want to see it after his 9-5, ha ha lucky us.

Basically we get a xeroxed sheet we memorize with muscles or nerves or whatever our lab is on. Except for the skeleton. But come on, how easy is that?

Don't worry about what you dissect. It's all gross. Unless you get lucky and get a non-dissecting prof like some of us. Of course, I am at a Comm Coll. :rolleyes:

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