Oct 01, 07 10:52 pm — Well, this was it, 135 of us slicing up 30 cadavers! My team was lucky enough to get one of the morbidly obese. This might sound like a problem, but while it is a pain to strip all the fat, the musculature is much better and the oils keep the tissue moist while thinner cadavers dry out in a month or so and require extensive re-wetting with noxious chemicals. Today we stripped the skin from the back, cleaned the trapezoids, lats, and rhomboid muscles, cut them and reflected (folded them to the outside) them to begin uncovering the spine and its intrinsic muscles. Tomorrow we excise the intrinsics and do a lamenectomy to uncover the spinal cord and spinal nerves. Anyone want a tour?
Yes, all the appendicular and trunk musculature is enhanced.
Be thankful it's only 4 days a week! To get anything on my petite frame its 5-6 days, but I can run forever and pedal like a fool.
Yes, but you have what I dont. Endurance. I have to train like a mofo on cardio only to get any type of endurance. I prefer size, so I keep my cardio to 10 minutes a day.
But I just added 1000 calories of complex carbohydrates, 350 of them just before bed, to my diet...and so far in the last 3 weeks I've gained about 2 lbs. WOO HOO!
LMAO... I'm not sure either.
What was the cause of death?
Wasn't that from a movie?
We don't know yet, but they say they will tell us eventually.
If you were to make an educated guess as to what the cause of death was, what would it be?
A few more questions~
Is the cadaver male or female?
What age range?
What ethnicity? ( if you can tell)
Are there any visible surgery scars?
Again... I'm curious.
This needs to be its own blog, on a friday, after he gets the answers.
Make it a 20 questions type of game, one question posted only per person, but you can guess as many times as you want.
Just a suggestion. I'm bored.
Good idea.
I've always been curious as to where medical schools get the cadavers as well. Are there that many people out there leaving their bodies to science/medical research? Or is it that there are that many bodies that are left unclaimed so hospital morgues just dispose of them in that manner?
Hmmmm... mebbe I'll have a look see on the world wide intraweb tubes.
White female in her 80s, no visible scars (though we haven't seen the front), no obvious cause of death. Other than weight she looks pretty healthy.
Sucks that you had/have to start from the back, but it makes sense.
I'd be all like "I wanna see the internal organs dammit!"
"I wanna see the internal organs dammit!"
I want to see the organs too.. GIGGITY GIGGITY..
We steals 'em
All are donated. Many were doctors and nurses who wanted to contribute to the new generation's education.
Cool.
This journal reminded me of the statue in front of the Lever House so I went and took a couple of pics of it with my cell phone during lunch. (left them as big as they were, any smaller and you really can't make out the detail.)
Front
Back
I know that Rodney Dangerfield donated his body to science fiction!
That is awesome! The statue is cool, too.
You ain't getting my body when I die. Damn if I'll have some student make fun of what's left of me.
They look at your pee pee.
I know someone that went to view cadavers as part of a massage therapist class.
They laughed at some old guys pee pee as they pointed at it.
I prefer the term weiner, and you're damn right!
Jizzmasterzero
I'm a bodybuilder by hobby, for the last 13 years, and I've always thought something, and Id like you to either verify it or convince me otherwise.
Obese people have larger, more developed muscles in most cases, due to them having to move that disgusting hulking mass everywhere they go, as opposed to someone like me, 6'2" 210lbs 'medium' framed person, that has to hit the gym 4 days a week just to get 18" arms and 13" forearms.
Granted, the fatty obese will have better leg development, but Id think that they'd have astounding trap, front and medial delt development from moving the bingo arm around.
Am I close?::grin::
[Comment was edited by Jizzmasterzero on October 01, 2007 at 11:01:42 PM]