undergrd HUMAN anatomy

[thackl]

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It's reasonable to assume that human cadavers would not be a part of undergrad anatomy, and I suppose it's fine that we get to practice BLUNT dissection on dead kitty cats.......... BUT WHY THE F@$K DO I HAVE TO MEMORIZE 50 F@$KING CAT MUSCLES FOR A LAB PRATICAL😕

I would much rather spend the time memorizing 50 human muscles in a HUMAN anatomy class😡

Rant over...........

 

[TTSD]

Originally posted by thackl
It's reasonable to assume that human cadavers would not be a part of undergrad anatomy, and I suppose it's fine that we get to practice BLUNT dissection on dead kitty cats.......... BUT WHY THE F@$K DO I HAVE TO MEMORIZE 50 F@$KING CAT MUSCLES FOR A LAB PRATICAL😕

I would much rather spend the time memorizing 50 human muscles in a HUMAN anatomy class😡

Rant over...........

Because, the muscles in a cat and a human for the most part are almost exactly the same. They look alike and will be in the same places making the same connection to the same part of the bones, tendons, and/or ligaments.

It's MUCH cheaper and EASIER to let undergrads practice on CATS than HUMANS.

To even get into my Human Physio class, we had to take two quarters of Comparative Anatomy where we worked on all sorts of animals learning everything.. the little names for parts of the bones, muscles, nerves, vascular, visceral.. etc..

The purpose of course is because this is a Physio class and we should know the anatomy like the back of our hand. But even we don't get a human cadaver to play with (not that we really need one anyways).. as it should be assumed we can easily identify whatever we need on a human body by morhping the cat in our mind.

 

[jenni4476]

We're lucky enough to have a cadaver along with a cat for our class and at first we were all like-if we have a cadaver, why do we have to do the cat?

Then as we got into it, we realized how similar they really are, and it's nice to be able to see the differences-it helps you remember what the muscles do better....I can see where you'd get frustrated not having the cadaver to compare to, tho...it's much easier when you already have a mental picture to morph to and don't have to construct it from scratch.

That said, for our practical we have to know BOTH the human and the cat! So I've got like 100-150 things to memorize and the differences, etc...😱

 

[mattorama]

At my school I was lucky enough to discover a little known and little advertised, very rigorous gross anatomy class. There were only 9 people in my class (maybe 6 biomed engineering grad students and 3 undergrads..) and we had two cadavers to work with. It was taught by the best prof I have ever had who also happens to teach gross anatomy to the med students here (I got a kick butt recommendation from him too boot). You might be able to look around and find something similar where you could actually do some human work. Look in obscure little deptarments. My class was through the basic medical science graduate dept (really little...most people don't even know it exists). The cat should serve you well though. We also did a little bit of comparative anatomy and it is AMAZING how similar most animals really are.

 

[OrthoFixation]

Thackl, I went through the same thing except my school had downgraded from cats to minks (cheaper and greasier). Each group of three had a mink, less the fur mind you. Now we understand what they do with minks after making the coats! We had one cat for the class to play with that turned out to be pregnant with 9 little ones. Each fetus was about the size of a quarter or nickel.

Mink anatomy was similar as names are adapted from humans for the most part. Some of the human anatomy was missing from the mink.

Just wait till the lab practicals. It was cool identifying the pinned components, but it really sucked when someone who saw it prior to you had mistakenly relocated the pin.

It was fun cutting up cow eyes, sheep hearts, sheep brains and human kidneys.

 

[redleft123]

I always thought it was ironic for the class to be called GROSS anatomy.

 

[thackl]

Thanks for putting in perspective for me. Our practical is on Monday, covering all the bones/bone markings, major muscles/insetions/origins, joints and the CAT.

Wish me luck......

 

[Amy B]

I guess I am a baby but I didn't take the human anatomy because I didn't want to be cutting up "pets" at least we know that the cadavers come from people willing to be donated to science but the animals didn't get a choice and were killed only for science. I am not an animal rights fanatic, but I do feel strongly about this.

When taking Embryology I had a real problem with disecting out of the eggs, all the chicken embroys at different stages of development and watching under scopes how there hearts would stop beating and their movements would stop and the blood would quit pumping, etc. We also had to disect mice and take the embryos from them and had to create sea urchin embryos from adding sperm to egg and watching them develop. Yes it didn teach us but I felt badly doing it.

Ok, enough ranting and preaching. I'm sure poeple will disagree with me but it is just the way I feel.