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.
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| Knee replacement |
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| Normal Knee Anatomy |
Have any of you
readers found any interesting anomalies in your cadavers?
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!
ReplyDeleteO wow that is so cool! I'm sure I would have been quite confused about the two sets of renal arteries at first!
DeleteNot the same, had a pregnant cat in AP biology that was exciting. Be careful of aliens!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, What did your class name the other cadavers? We had Vincent, Billy, Rosie and Bertha.
ReplyDeleteHaha 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!
DeleteWhat no Grumpy Cat-aver! Next years class.
DeleteHahaha good one Dad! Would have been very fitting for your pregnant cat-aver!
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