Sunday, April 14, 2013

Lower Limb Dissection


I want to preface by saying that I am a very shy person, but sometimes I can get overly animated and excited about certain things.  I am coming to find out that this especially happens during anatomy lab (I think my lab group can attest to that).

I feel as though I’m in a state of awe for the majority of lab.  Before this class I had never cut into a body before and every week I am more and more amazed.  This past week in lab we dissected the lower limb.  We were supposed to peel back the patella (knee cap) so that we could get a better look at how the knee works.  As I was cutting the right knee, I noticed that it wasn’t looking anything like the left knee.  Once I finally had a big enough cut, I looked inside and it felt as if I was looking at a mirror or some sort of shiny surface.  A light bulb went off in my head and I started screaming for my lab group to come look; “Guys something isn’t right, THERE IS SOMETHING IN THERE!”

This is what I was seeing:



It turns out that Albert had a knee replacement; which was really neat to see.  

Knee replacement

Normal Knee Anatomy


Have any of you readers found any interesting anomalies in your cadavers?

7 comments:

  1. Our guy had a bb pellet imbedded in his palm, probably from his own childhood decades ago, and two sets of renal arteries on both sides. It was interesting!

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    1. O wow that is so cool! I'm sure I would have been quite confused about the two sets of renal arteries at first!

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  2. Not the same, had a pregnant cat in AP biology that was exciting. Be careful of aliens!

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  3. I'm curious, What did your class name the other cadavers? We had Vincent, Billy, Rosie and Bertha.

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    1. Haha I love Bertha for a name! Ours are Sally, Albert, Spike/Bingo Betty (there's a disagreement between the group members on that one), and Mr. Wrinkles!

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    2. What no Grumpy Cat-aver! Next years class.

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    3. Hahaha good one Dad! Would have been very fitting for your pregnant cat-aver!

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