Dissection
Oh guys. Oh faithful readers of tumbledry. I am lost. On the rollercoaster of life I’m in the inverted underground pitch black tunnel portion wherein one loses all sense of direction and only knows one thing: there’s a way out.
Thankfully, there’s solace in the analogy, for a rollercoaster of life puts you on a track … and the track that I think I am on leads out of the aforementioned analogy-heavy tunnel. The best ways to save time in college are (1) owning a bike and (2) sleeping. The first, I think, is self-explanatory - but the second makes you so much more efficient at getting things done that you simply would not believe it. Oh, and libraries. Wow.
In an effort to make my Wednesday as interesting as possible, fate decided to give me a double-skinning dissection introduction today. I got to skin a cat (there’s only one way) and skin parts of a shark. Fun fact: shark skin used to be used a sandpaper for woodworking before sandpaper became paper with sand glued to it. Also, I wonder if it was called sandpaper when it was shark’s skin. That would be confusing.
Comments
Markoe
Good thing about the analogy coster is that they dont take your picture while your flying through that inverted tunnel screaming like a little girl and then have the balls to charge you 15 bucks for a copy…..those bastards.
Dan McKeown
actually, its not called sand paper, the real name for the product is coated abrasive. Thats a little fact i learned in middle school shop class.
John
I like cats.
Justin Gehring
Actually Dan, according to 3m's website your wrong about the coated abrasive… Sandpaper is the name of the product, Coated Abrasive is the category sandpaper falls under…
Things not even using "sand" fall under category of "Coated abrasives" although most of them still serve the same function as sandpaper (grinding, finishing, etc in some way shape or form).
But if you go to 3m and say sand paper, you will get a single product (and a few variations of it based on granularity)… If you go to 3m and say you want a Coated Abrasive, not only will you get a weird look, but you'll get 100's of products from them (in differen't versions of them as well).
David
Shark skin used to be used in similar ways to leather in the old days i.e. for book binding or instrument cases. It was then called shagreen.
I'm a human, not a spambot
John
Tips on Dissection:
If it rips, it wasn't important. Probably a minor muscle you won't need to know for the test anyways.
If you use muscle, you'll rip muscle. Use a hemostat and a 10 blade to cut underlying fascia off skin and muscle surfaces.
Cut too deep, lunch will be hard to keep. Do abdominal area last, ending with the gastrointestinal track. Don't forget to have an intestine length contest!
Your friendly neighborhood vet, John
Alexander Micek
Intriguing tips all around. We are doing muscles only, and I know what you mean about using muscle - I ripped one clean through, but that fits with your other tip: it was small so it's probably not important.