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Lab: Autopsy of Mr. Pickle – Body Orientation, Directional Terms, Planes & Sections

Background:

Anatomy uses an international language of terms which enables one to correctly convey information to medical professionals around the world. Your successful study of the human body and understanding of diagnostic processeswill rely on your ability to communicate using the correct terminology and to understand the language of directionality and organization. A doctor must be able to communicate withother medical professionals and to his/her patients.

All descriptions of the human body are based on the assumption that the individual is standing in what is known as the Standard Anatomical Position (SAP), as seen below.

The human body can be cut or dissected into pieces (sections) along imaginary planes (flat surfaces that pass through the body).

Materials: Scalpel, Probe,Forceps, Dissecting pins, Dissecting pan, Goggles

Procedure:

1. Put your pickle in the dissecting tray. Push a head onto the stem end of your pickle (face up), two legs into the other end and two arms into the sides. Use a marker to draw lines at the wrists, elbows, ankles and knees. Draw a diagramof Mr. Pickle in the space below and label the superior and inferior ends.

2. What do you call the part of the body that is facing up?

3. What do you call the part of the body that is facing the tray?

4. Use the scalpel to open the ventral “body cavity” by making a deep I-shapedincision. Sketch Mr. Pickle with the incisions you have made. Label each cut -sagittal, transverse, or frontal.

5. Open Mr. Pickle along your incisions to expose the seeds “internalorgans.” Use dissecting pins to hold the pickle open. Sketch Mr. Pickle, including his interiors.

6. Use your probe to carefully remove the internal organsfor further examination, without removing the flesh (skin, adipose, muscle). Close Mr. Pickle’s I-incision.

7. Make a superficial sagittal incision in Mr. Pickle intermediate to his belly button and his left side. Remove a small tissue sample from this incision for testing.

8. Make a deep frontal incision in the most superior region of Mr. Pickle’s right shoulder, just lateral to his neck. Remove a small tissue sample from this incision for testing.

9. Amputate Mr. Pickle’s right leg, proximal to the knee, but distal to the hip.

10. Amputate Mr. Pickle’s left arm proximal to the wrist, but distal to the elbow.

11. Make a final sketch of Mr. Pickle after completing his autopsy.