Does this bring you back (** warning, semi-graphic pics!) ?

[chickenscratching]

i know i had a good time with the fetal pig in biology. his name was edward i think.

[MuseRider]

1. Oh goodness yes.

Never took a picture of my pig or my cat and they won't allow non official photos at autopsy so I can't share! Question on my Zoology test, there were pins stuck all over and we had to ID what they were stuck in, a pin on the chin area....answer....Hair on his chinny chin chin. Yes it did count and I got it wrong. Poooh.

[HereSince1628]

3. That's vibrissae, muserider

[MuseRider]

12. Yes and I did not

know that either! It was really kind of funny.

[HereSince1628]

2. Looks to be bigger than a 12 inch pig...also looks like an incomplete

dissection, although the heart looks damaged (biseceted) and the vessels of the neck and the upper chest seem not to be well revealled 'though the thyroid and thymus seem to be removed.

Maybe this is an online quiz or some online study aid. The picture is nicely in focus (I've tried to take pics like that and good lighting and proper depth of field arent as easy at it may seem) but it doesn't look like a dissection that has maximized the value of the fetal pig.

[chickenscratching]

5. i googled fetal pig

and i believe your assumptions are correct, i think it was from a study aid.

and nice analysis of the pig! you must do it for a living, eh?

[CottonBear]

4. I fainted and cut my lip open while dissecting a fetal pig

in my high school biology class. No one else would make the first incision, so I did (or tried to) and promptly fainted!

I got stitches and came back the next day and continued working on the pig.

I just didn't have what to become a surgeon like my dad.

[chickenscratching]

6. whoa!

but you continued to work on the pig?
nice one, way to be steadfast and determined when it comes to fetal pigs.
:woohoo:

[CottonBear]

15. Thanks! It wasn't so bad once the stomach was cut open

and we just looked at all of the parts and poked around inside the poor little piggy.

I once assisted my orthopaedic surgeon dad when he put a pin in my cousin's (broken) big toe. I held the instruments and tried not to look.

My mom and dad met over a human corpse in Human Anatomy class in college! How romantic is that?

[chickenscratching]

17. are you kidding me?

that's hilarious.
i can just hear their conversation...'why bother taking that heart from the corpse when you can have mine?'
;)

[CottonBear]

31. My future dad teased my future mom

about the black cotton stockings that she was wearing to keep warm in that cold room with all of the bodies! :)

When they became engaged, the local paper in my paternal grandparent's Florida town ran a story in the society section about "love blossoming among the smell of orange blossoms and formaldehyde!"

Mom and dad posed in white surgical gowns carving a Thanksgiving turkey! Dad wore a surgical mask and was carving the turkey and mom was holding the instrument tray and giving dad an adoring Nancy Reagan look! It is such a cute picture! :)

[BurtWorm]

7. Oh my God! What have they done to Wilbur?!

:o

[chickenscratching]

8. what would charlotte think? n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. I remember dissecting that in HS anatomy class...

I've also dissected a few cats in college anatomy...and let me tell you there is NOT more than one way to skin a cat and it is a pain in the ass!

[chickenscratching]

18. question?

i never had to dissect a kitty kat in school, but a few of my friends did. is it true that everyday when your work was done you had to put the skin back on the cat?
i remember somebody describing it to me like putting on a little jacket....
:puke:

[Reverend_Smitty]

35. we didn't have to...

but putting the skin back on helped keep the muscles moist. Yeah it was pretty gross

[Mad_Dem_X]

10. OMG - FLASHBACK!!

I had to dissect a fetal pig in college. I don't know how I made it through. We had to dissect cats, too, but we were in groups, so I made someone else do the dirty work. :puke:

[RebelOne]

11. I dissected a frog and I still remember

the smell of the formaldehyde. Ugh!

[CO Liberal]

13. I Had Biology Lab Right Before Lunch

Yum!!!!

[chickenscratching]

21. egads

i think i did too....all that phmeldyhyde....i still can remember the smell quite distinctly...
:puke:

[progmom]

14. why?

This is really really gross. Next time, in the subject, would you say something like *pictures of dead animals and their insides* so I know not to click it?

I don't mean to be a whinypants, but I really think I am going to throw up now.

[chickenscratching]

19. sorry

sorry progmom, i did put a warning on the post about semi-graphic pictures, but i'll try to be more specific next time.
:blush:

[dr.strangelove]

22. It did say graphic pictures

I'm not pleased to look at a dead fetal pig in the midst of dissection, but I was prepared for something graphic, and this qualifies.

[chickenscratching]

25. i give my thanks to the good doctor. :) n/t

[dr.strangelove]

34. I didn't like it either,

but I give you credit for the warning.

[progmom]

30. i guess i can handle lots of kinds of graphic, just not this kind

but that's my issue, i suppose. :P


carry on. :hi:

[tjwash]

16. That's when I decided...

...to switch my major to Computer Science.

:puke:

[SarahB]

20. Guts!!!

:bounce:

[Lauri16]

23. Timewarp!

My biology teacher gave us extra credit if we could get both eyeballs out, nerves & all. Damn hard on a fetal pig! I came close, but didn't get it.

Then we got to do the earthworms!

*edited because i think i'm just learning how to type! :crazy:

[chickenscratching]

27. oh YA!

now you're bringing me back!
those damn earthworms were so tiny. fun though, taking out miniscule body parts.

[Ron Green]

24. Sus scrofa!! n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

26. Nah...we got a cat...

we played jumprope with the small intestine...after the lab-practical of course...

theProdigal

[chickenscratching]

28. yes!

any pictures o' that one?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

29. no...too long ago...

not that they didn't have film or anything like that :-)...just no digital pics.

Anywho...we did take some time to ammend the book 101 Uses for a Dead Cat.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517545160/qid=1112302646/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-3218480-5740133

theProdigal

[ChoralScholar]

32. We named ours Askim.

...on the off chance some idiot would ask the name, we could say "Askim", and watch the idiot ask a dead pig his name.

The things you do in Sophomore Biology Class.

[chickenscratching]

33. LOL

:rofl:
so witty as a sophmore, wern't we?

[Guy Fawkes]

36. My lab partner almost threw up...

then we played with it's eyeballs.

[Dave Reynolds]

37. Yep, in my line of work

I have had to do that with mice, primates, rabbits, and humans.

[sbj405]

38. Our first assignment was to determine the sex

Oddly my pig was a hermaphrodite. Very strange. Even my biology teacher, who I'm sure had seen quite a few pigs in his day was surprised.