The hands-on learning that we have at UNE is amazing! We were able to dissect these cow kidneys, which were extremely large. Within the kidney, they were color coded for us to understand and help find different structures. The yellow is where urine is stored, the blue are veins, and the red are arteries. We had a large sheet which told us where all of the structures would be, and we were able to work in teams of two in order to identify everything!
Anatomy lab was definitely interesting this week. We dissected sheep brains! It was fun to have some hands-on experience in lab, especially coming out of quarantine.
We went through the dissection following step by step guide, and learning how the actual anatomy looks as sheep brain are very similar to human brain.
I didn’t get a picture of it, but we split the brain in half down the longitudinal fissure that separates the left and right hemispheres. We were then able to look at the corpus callosum, thalamus, hypothalamus, ventricles, and more!
A couple weeks ago during Anatomy and Physiology, we looked at different tissue types during lab. This was a really cool, and we learned how to identify the different parts of the tissues that we looked at as well!
