Anthropomorphic Anatomy, Period 3, 21 Jan '09
Hands firmly jammed in his jacket pockets, Mohinder was standing by the windows - light had won out over the cold.
"Unprotected in freezing conditions the human body has only a limited period of time before it loses its capacity to regulate it's own temperature. Normally we function at a little above or below 37 degrees, with definite medical issues creeping in three or four degrees either way," said Mohinder, handing out thermometers. He held one under his tongue, waited until it beeped and held it up. "37.2 - Try it."
"This is your hypothalamus, regulator of several metabolic processes - hunger, thirst, emotional behaviour - " continued Mohinder pointing up at the diagram behind him. "As well as keeping you at a steady temperature in concert with sweating, shivering and dilation or contraction of the blood vessels," he went on.
"Cryobiology as a science is constantly improving, not only with focussed freezing as surgery. But also with the aim of freezing tissues so quickly that undamaged thawing can take place. Currently this is only the case for reproductive materials, cornea and skin cells." Mohinder picked up a thin slice of pineapple, flipped open the container in front of him and held it over the dry ice.
He held up the frozen fruit slice. "As you'll see in your samples."
[OCD is up. Have at]
"Unprotected in freezing conditions the human body has only a limited period of time before it loses its capacity to regulate it's own temperature. Normally we function at a little above or below 37 degrees, with definite medical issues creeping in three or four degrees either way," said Mohinder, handing out thermometers. He held one under his tongue, waited until it beeped and held it up. "37.2 - Try it."
"This is your hypothalamus, regulator of several metabolic processes - hunger, thirst, emotional behaviour - " continued Mohinder pointing up at the diagram behind him. "As well as keeping you at a steady temperature in concert with sweating, shivering and dilation or contraction of the blood vessels," he went on.
"Cryobiology as a science is constantly improving, not only with focussed freezing as surgery. But also with the aim of freezing tissues so quickly that undamaged thawing can take place. Currently this is only the case for reproductive materials, cornea and skin cells." Mohinder picked up a thin slice of pineapple, flipped open the container in front of him and held it over the dry ice.
He held up the frozen fruit slice. "As you'll see in your samples."
[OCD is up. Have at]