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Well, the trip to the Anatomy Department was very intersting. I was focussing on the anatomy of the head and neck, and had two plastinated heads, two embalmed heads/shoulders and a few neck prosections. Things became much clearer when I could look at the pictures of my mummified heads next to a recent head. I could see where the main arteries would have been, and realised that the whole oesophagus was totally compressed in each of my heads.
Tha anatomy lab is strange, with all the medical student's dissection bodies laid out in rows, and skeletons hanging from what could be hatstands. This particular day the bodies were all decapitated. The corpses are embalmed in a side room, and at Manchester they also plastinate corpses (although there were none undergoing the process at the moment). There are embalmed body parts in display cases, and there was also a group of physiotherapy students working on a variety of limbs the day that I was there.
This time, when I was shown into the embalming room, I didn't even think about the fact that there was a dead body lying in front of me. It is amazing how quickly I have become desensitized to it. The more time I spend with the dead and with body parts, the more I appreciate how amazing the human body is, and how unbelievably well-designed it is. When you think of how many of your body's processes could just randomly go wrong it seems amazing that any of us live to any age at all.
Tha anatomy lab is strange, with all the medical student's dissection bodies laid out in rows, and skeletons hanging from what could be hatstands. This particular day the bodies were all decapitated. The corpses are embalmed in a side room, and at Manchester they also plastinate corpses (although there were none undergoing the process at the moment). There are embalmed body parts in display cases, and there was also a group of physiotherapy students working on a variety of limbs the day that I was there.
This time, when I was shown into the embalming room, I didn't even think about the fact that there was a dead body lying in front of me. It is amazing how quickly I have become desensitized to it. The more time I spend with the dead and with body parts, the more I appreciate how amazing the human body is, and how unbelievably well-designed it is. When you think of how many of your body's processes could just randomly go wrong it seems amazing that any of us live to any age at all.