Gross Anatomy...

Its not called gross anatomy just cause its gross...Gross anatomy is the study of the form of structures that can be seen with the naked eye. All u ppl shud know that im in first year of medical school. I was surprised to know that quite a few ppl don know something very very interesting about medical skool.Anatomy. Anatomy is a subject that teaches us structure.our body's structure. Physiology teaches us function and Biochemistry teaches us....well....im yet to figure that out. Anyway...back to anatomy.practicals...was surprised that nobody knew about cadaver dissection(dead body dissection) that we have everyday in college first thing in the morn. i know it sounds damn disgusting but its actually not that bad once you're used to it.we preferably dont use gloves. For the benefit of those who wanna read more and see more....continue....for those who are already grossed out....stop.

Picture 1:
Yes....i've actually uploaded pics for ur priviledge. Picture 1 is an entire cadaver(dead body). well...not exactly an entire cadaver cause there's no head. don ask me how...it was jus missing on the first day itself. its a female cadaver.we have 9 such cadavers(the others have heads) This was what we saw on day 1...one girl fainted...(as usual) but the boys were ok..we were busy clicking snaps with our camera phones and sendin were them to each other. So..back to the topic...ppl always say dead bodies decay right? then how come these dont???... if u look carefully on the upper part of the right thigh....u can probably notice a small inscission or a small cut. They do this to enter the femoral vein...once entered....they introduce a tube inside and inject loads of saline(salt solution) from a machine into this vein so that it goes to the heart and into the rest of the body from there. the purpose of doing this is to remove all the clotted blood from inside all the arteries...veins....and everywhere else. So technically this step cleans the body. The next step....through the same femoral vein...they inject loads of formalin(the chemical used to preserve dead stuff) into the body and again...this enters all the arteries and the veins...this helps in preserving the body for its long time use.....one year at least. Once this is done...the body is kept for a few weeks aside( i don know why) and then its ready for dissection!!! yaay!!! Tidbit:This was the first pic we took and got caught doin it too.

Picture 2:

This was taken about 2 months back.somewhere in october.To the left bottom corner of the screen...u can see the head. right next to the head u can see the shoulder...but no hand. the hands were cut off once we finished dissecting it completely....once they're cut...they're preserved for our practical exams where we gotta identify parts in the dissected body.If u notice on the upper part of the screen...the legs are dissected too. the flaps that u see on the right lower part of the screen are none other than flaps of skin...yes...skin. The whitish part of the flaps are just some pieces of fat and the lower layers of the skin. The First few layers of the muscles on the chest were removed earlier and what u can superficially see now are the deeper muscles of the chest....the intercoastal muscles between the ribs and the serratus anterior towards the right extremities. Don ask me what that pink thing in the centre is....i got no idea.

Picture 3:
Ok...zoomed in on some lower limb dissection....if you've noticed...the toes haven't been dissected as yet...u actually cant identify much in this cause even the superficial layer of muscles were removed before i got an opportunity to get this picture...all u can see are some tendons(the structures by which muscles begin and terminate...eg:the structures that are on top of ur knuckles...keep moving ur finger and u can see them move on ur knuckles and on the backside of ur palm). The only obvious muscle is the soleus(i hope i got the spelling rite) which is commonly called the calf muscle...u can see it hanging from the right leg on the centre of the screen between both the legs.apart from that...nothin much.

Picture 4:
Another lower limb dissection pic. nothing can be prominently noticed in the pic expept the flexor digitorum longus tendon which can be seen on the left leg.they look like thin ropes jus below the undissected part of the toes. well thats it i guess...right now we almost finished dissecting the entire abdomen in college...those would gross u out...so ill keep them for later...hope u guys enjoyed this insight on anatomy and dissection...ppl might get grossed out but trust me....its the most interestin thing on earth to see how wonderfully our bodies have been designed and how compact everything is right inside us...cant believe we have so much right inside us...anyway...lemme know what u guys think...have fun...take care...peace.