anatomy prac...

today, another anatomy practical started for the first time this semester after having to endure those arduous anatomy lectures...sometimes, i wonder if i ever can leanred all those weird anatomical terms (fascia, rami, ilioinguinal, hypogastric, coeliac, retroperitoneal, intraperitoneal, lumbar, sacral, plexus...and the long list of which i still haven't understood yet)...

prior to the prac, we had a briefing given by a surgeon and he showed to all of us live video of patients having hernia (protrusion of stomach content via the skin or muscle)..and to my amazement, there were still some people giggling and laughing when saw those vidoes (i wonder what they will do if they had those disease?)..some of the videos was quite gruelsome..just can't imagine your testis / scrotum being filled up with lots of fluid and become some sort like a big balloon..ouch!

then, it was time for us to dissect those cadevers..we got a 90-year old female cadaever and we dissected the anterior abdominal wall (meaning the stomach and all those related organs)...to my amazement, we found lots of yellow squeamish fatty layers below the skin...

some of us even called those fat as butters (this is the culture of medicine...talking about food when dissecting cadaever)..which lead to some girls there feeling a bit nausea *wink*...and the rest are history..continue to dissect layers by layers until we found those small intestine...

oklah..got to study for 2500 words essay now..