Dissection!

Well they drain all the parts so there is no blood when you dissect. If there was blood it would be harder to see what exactly you are dissecting so they drain it and embalm it.

A sheep brain lol but yes I know what you mean well next week it is going to be a human brain and I already had to point out things on a cadaver. Talk about creepy

Yuck!!! Good thing I didn't go into the medical field, dissecting is not for me especially a sheep or human brain. It sounds interesting, don't take me wrong, but I see blood and I want to throw-up I just might pass out in the middle of class during the dissection. I wish you the best of luck, with your human brain and cadaver. LOL!!! And yes it is definitely creepy!!!

No actually close but I am studying to be a nurse. We have a cadaver lab as well so we have to identify things on those as well. I am actually use to smelling embalming fluid.

It is a weird sour smell. It causes headaches in people the first time in there but then your senses get use to it.

I see that you will become a good nurse by the way you're educating. Does smell good embalming fluid?

Just in case those food items are unfamiliar to you, haggis is a kind of meat loaf or large sausage made from the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, together with onion, oatmeal, stock, salt, and pepper and boiled for three hours in the stomach of the sheep. It, apparently, doesn't contain brains but every producer has his own secret recipe, so I wouldn't be surprised if brain were included. The other item (whose name I am forbidden to type here but can also mean a bundle of sticks and rhymes with maggot) is also a way of using up the less appetizing (but very nutritious) parts of a pig. It is a large, fist-sized meatball made of the hearts, lungs, spleens and livers of a pig, mixed with chopped onions and apples, wholemeal bread, mixed herbs, salt and pepper and wrapped in a membrane which is called the caul but is not, I think, the birth membrane. Again, no brains in the 'official' recipe, but ... Well, those are both no-brainer recipes, it seems. Here is how they do it in France (with a delightful accent): http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-prepare-pigs-sheeps-brain-69779/

Something else for your delectation which I just found: Scrambled eggs with Calves Brains (a Czech recipe): http://www.mail-archive.com/egg-recipe@yahoogroups.com/msg01049.html (both, apparently, have a very similar delicate texture ... "like eating a cloud"). All in all, I find that many cultures regard brains as something of a delicacy, and why not? It is part of the animal, not poisonous or harmful (if the animal itself was healthy) and, once one has killed an animal, it is our duty to make sure that every part which can be used is used with care and for our benefit rather than despised and thrown out. I still have to find brains used in soup. I think that the texture of brains (rather than the flavour, which is probably rather little) is enjoyed for its own sake and making soup of them would defeat the object. I hope that your professor was joking about the soup (especially if he had asked you to identify the signs of the sheep version of 'Mad Cow Disease' called 'scrapie'!).

all I wanted to know is if you have ever dissected anything lol not recipes to eat them

When we dissect there is no blood. The specimens have been drained and embalmed. I like to dissect I think it is cool. I just have not done it since the frog and worm in middle school so it caught me off guard.

Yeah I am sure that organs are expensive it how much I have paid this school so far I am sure they can afford it. Next week the professor is suppose to dissect the Hunan brain so we can see how thy are similar and different.

Surprisingly it was not as bad as I had expected it to be. I know this one time me and this Nikki girl were studying and we were the only 2 in the cadaver lab. The body was laying on her stomache. Well i guess in the previous class they pushed her head up wards to see the brain and I did not know that. So when We unzipped the body and when she pulled the sheet off the face of the lady i jumped so high i about went through the roof. The funny part was she ran the other direction because she did not know what was going on!

It smelt like formaldehyde. Which that is a smell that I am use to. For the first 5 minutes of being in there everyone got a head ache because their body was not use to the smell. It is a weird smell but not one of rotten. Just a weird chemical smell.

I can't decide which mental picture to freeze in my mind. The cadaver with its head pushed up, or you jumping through the roof! I don't think I'd get caught in a cadaver lab alone. It's not that I'm afraid of them, I just don't think I could take the stench. Was it smelly?

The funny thing is he was of some foreign orgin so it was probably not a joke inside to him. He is probably use to it. Yeah I did the worm and the frog in middle school.

They did not penalize you for leaving the class. Usually when people get sick and have to leave they fail them

Yes the first couple of times gets some taking us to but after you are in there time after time you start to get use to the whole procedure. Have you ever dissected anything If so what was it?

Wow how wrong was that I have never done a cat or even heard of others doing a cat. We did the brain of the sheep because it was similar to a human brain but 10x smaller. The only difference is the placement of the spinal cord. Yeah the formaldehyde does have a weird sour smell. A lot of people in our class gets head aches til they get use to it.

In my anatomy 1 we had to know the fetal pig and learn from a real one that was already dissected but I am not sure who exactly dissected it. It was already on the dissection pan labeled.

I actually had no problem with her playing the cats meowing, but then again i have a sick sense of humor. It was only the advanced class that got to actually do dissections themselves. the rest of the classes just watched at the teacher did it. My freshmen bio class dissected a fetal pig. There were no oinking music for this one though....just due to a lack of music not a lack of trying.

Yeah we personally do not get to do that but we watch our professor do it. I would freak if it squirted on me

My anatomy is 1 year and divided intotwo classes. The first class we did muscles and bones which in that case wehad to find them on the cadaver. We personally did not dissect the body but we watched my professor do it.

It is cool and weird at the same time. I think the learning process is great and the experience is increditable!

Ahhhh imagine that but yet half of our doctors in America are from the chinese orgin!