What do you dissect in A&P Lab?

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

Rats and cats. Some lucky pre-nursing students get cadavers.

cadavers - and they STINK!!!!!!

Stiff smelly cat!! Yuck. Its the formaldahyde thats worse than the cat.

FETAL PIGS!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

Specializes in Primary Care, L&D, Med-Surg.

Cadavers....the lab instructors did the dissection.

Specializes in Adult Med-Surg, Rehab, and Ambulatory Care.

We had computer cadavers. Not as much fun when you can't poke and prod at body parts but still very informative.

In highschool A&P I did cats and sharks (little ones), in college biology I did worms and crayfish, and in highschool biology I did a frog.

Geez I love science, ain't it great? :p

All we had in my AP class was Seal-A-Meal rats and cats. We got to dissect at our discretion in teams. We did an experiment and report on chicken muscle:rolleyes:

When I go to Towson I have to take A&P over again:roll Love it! Hopefully, it will be a little more about human anatomy.

Do cadavers come in giant Seal-A-meal baggies???:roll

Specializes in Women's Services, Dialysis.

cats, pig hearts, cow brains

A cat, sheep eyeballs, a cow heart. It is a smelly experience but you do learn a lot and by the midterm, you won't notice the smell anymore.

Good luck!

Gator

We didn't get to dissect anything!! It was all computer simulated lab work. So much for a local community college!

At my community college Fundamental Anatomy says it is computer simulated dissection but for Human it doesn't say anything and Jefferson says I have to take Human.

Maire I'm in South Jersey too. Where did you do your pre-reqs and where are you going to school?

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