An abdominal aortic aneurysm -- a bulge in the large artery that carries blood away from the heart -- can be immediately life-threatening if it grows large enough to rupture. The chance of survival ...

Every doctor, no matter how long they've been out of medical school, will remember the first time they walked into a dissection lab. They'll remember the smell of the embalming fluid, the feeling of ...

While we might not hear much about a "worldwide shortage of cadavers," the fact is that in developing nations and other places, they are in short supply. It costs money to properly embalm and ...

A new discovery regarding the human intestinal mesentery may radically change the fundamentals of anatomy and embryology and related surgical approaches. The mesenery is an obscure structure in the ...

CHICAGO — Fifteen-year-old Donna Youssefnia approached the cadaver with the confidence of a medical student. "I touched the heart, the lungs, the small intestines, and the large intestines," said ...

Imagine the game "Operation" on steroids. The 8-foot Anatomage tables in the Health Sciences virtual reality lab at Jacksonville University provide doctoral occupational therapy students with a ...

When I was a biochemistry major at Ohio State University, I took a midlevel anatomy class with a cadaver lab. Studying human anatomy is lot of frickin’ work. Not quite the logic-and-problem-solving ...