What Have You Had to Disect

SusanJean · Jan 2, 2005

In high school we did frogs, fish, worms and fetal pigs. It has been awhile, so we may have done more, I just don't remember.

I have had 2 additional anatomy: 1 cat and one human cadaver. Both had 4 students per.

Saved_by_Grace · Jan 2, 2005

In Biology we did the fetal pig. In Anatomy we did the cat. Our instructor also brought in a deer heart and we closely examined it.

Deb123j · Jan 3, 2005

In my 1st A&P class we did a sheep brain and a cow eye.

I was irritated :rolleyes: b/c one student (she is an EMT - and has dissected things before) took over and wouldn't let the rest of us (4 in all) help out. So I made sure that I was one of the main ones with the cow eye. Can't wait to see what we get to do next semester.

ayndim · Jan 3, 2005

Nothing. I am doing mine online and have pics of disections (human and animals) but don't have to do anything in person. I made the rounds of the animals in high school. zsAd

crb613, BSN, RN · Jan 3, 2005

cat, cow eye, heart & brain. We used the cat for A&P I&II muscles, veins, arteries & body functions had to know every part & what it did.

manna, BSN, RN · Jan 3, 2005

Wish we'd had cadavers as well. I don't feel like I really learned very much from the animal dissections.

In A&P I & II (both the same semester), we did 2 cats, sheep brain, cow eyeball, and some other things that I can't seem to remember at the moment. :)

LadyT618, MSN, APRN, NP · Jan 3, 2005

fetal pig

sheep brain

cow heart

talaxandra · Jan 3, 2005

In what ways did dissection help you all?

My theatre rotation really clicked anatomy into place for me, so I guess maybe that's why, but I'm curious because dissection wasn't a part of the curriculum during my training (although I did dissect a cow's eye, a sheep heart and two rats [plus a rat fetus] during high school biology), and speaking to the staff on tonight dissection doesn't seem to feature in Australian undergraduate education.

blue eyes · Jan 3, 2005

A pig trotter and sheep heart. I dissected a bull's eye, sheep kidneys and a rat while in school.

Dissecting the heart was pretty helpful in that I developed a more practical understanding of blood flow through the heart rather than just reading it in a text book! Didn't get much out of dissecting the pig foot - it was part of the topic tissues: function and form. Was more beneficial to view the slides under a microscope, though at least there was an opportunity to examine the gross structure in situ.

nikonos · Jan 3, 2005

The trick to avoid stinky animals is to rinse them (and the storage bag) well each time you use them. At the end of semester my pig didn't reek, but many others did. At first people were giggling as I "bathed" my pig... but in the end they undertsood my logic! :rotfl:

You need to be careful about rinsing all the preservative off of the animal in question, especially if you need to use the specimen all year. Even in the course of only four months, certain groups in my lab started developing mold on their cats because they had poured out the preservative fluid. It may stink, but it is there to prevent the growth of microorganisms. I would hate for you to have to buy another specimen because your's grew mold and bacteria while you were on semester break.

wardenbelle · Jan 3, 2005

A&P I

sheep heart and kidney

A&P II

Cat

sheep eye

we one of these per 2 people.

very cool stuff, but the kidney stunk really bad, smelled like a dirty bathroom in the lab for days. :rotfl:

Couch30 · Jan 5, 2005

I also attended a CC for A&P I and II. We used sheep parts in every disection. A&P I was a sheep eye, which I found the hardest to do. Once I got past it looking at me to cut it open, it was fine. Also, had a sheep brain that same semester. A&P II we disected a sheep heart and kidney. I would have to agree, that disecting the heart made it alot easier to remember the pathway of blood through the heart. I am not keen on disecting parts, but once you get past the smell it really does help you with what you have learned in lecture.