Fascinating autopsy video
WARNING: this video is not for the squeamish!
Don’t click this if you’re at all “squeamishable.”
This video was an autopsy done for educational purposes at a medical college. I find it absolutely amazing how FAST they go! These guys are real pros.
Some particularly interesting (at least to me) things to watch for:
- The “delivery” of the brain is particularly bewitching.
- You get to see the heart valves and coronary ostia in particularly good detail.
- And I couldn’t help but imagine some freakish cooking show any time they use the… well… monstrous cutlery-looking knife (like when they were transecting the liver and spleen).
- One kidney is considerably smaller than the other, with both cortical tissue and some medullary tissue markedly thinned.
- a leiomyoma (benign muscle tumor) in the uterine wall
- a highly visible corpus luteum, showing she was still ovulating
- cool view of vocal chords
- the brain! very visible substantia nigra, and a beautiful demonstration of crossing nerve fibers in the pons and straighter nerve fibers in the medulla. you get to see mammillary bodies and the corpus callosum. (where was this video when I was taking the neurology module in physiology?!)
I’ve been profoundly humbled by this experience. Seeing another human being like that; seeing what we are, all we are, slopped about on a table. Very humbling indeed; yet, realizing that “simple” matter can accomplish such astounding tasks is equally inspiring. It’s confounding that I can simultaneously feel that this particular assemblage of goop is both modest and complex. Am I naive for hoping that everyone can feel this way? (Especially after witnessing such a morbidly enchanting scene?)
How’s that for my first post in weeks?
Pretty good. I thought you’d given up the ghost here. Glad to see the real world has taken all of your time Ryan. I added you to my blogroll, so you’ve a duty to put up at least one post a week!
Thanks for posting- I am a registered nurse and it is interesting
to get an idea of the dimensions/size of various organs and structures, ie, how big is the optic nerve. In a@p you dont often
get an idea of SIZE- just what is where. I also appreciate a PRO_
FESSIONAL video-not something that is posted simply for gore value-
It is indeed something to learn from. Lastly lets all never forget
that we learn sometimes at someone elses expense. This was a fairly young woman, and was someones daughter, wife, mother.