Neovison Dissection Lab Report

The Neovison vison dissection lab was intended so students could study the external and internal anatomy and physiology of the Neovison vison. Once the Neovison vison was dissected, students could see the similar and different characteristics of the Neovison vison that are present within the human body. Students were able to identify muscles, bones, organs, tissues, insertion points, and origin points within the body of the animal. Reflection on skeletal and muscular structure was also studied throughout the dissection lab. Although the muscles within the Neovison vison and the skeletal structure of the Neovison vison are highly similar to those in a human body, this dissection lab made it known that there truly are anatomical differences within

Each person in the lab group had a certain job. The reader reads the lab procedure, makes sure group members are on task, and assists the other group members. The equipment manager gets the equipment reader for the procedure, inventories and inspects equipment, and washed and dries the lab area after the procedure. The dissector performs the actual dissection and incisions. They must wear gloves and they prepare the Neovison vison for storage. The lab groups first had to obtain a dissection kit and a lab manual. They obtained a clear plastic bin, a dissection tray, and a mat for inside the plastic bin for the dissection. The lab groups then put on protective equipment such as gloves, aprons, and goggles that protected them from potentially harmful fluids. After each dissection day when clean up begins, the students made note to wrap their Neovison vison in wet paper towels to make sure the Neovison vison did not dry out. If the Neovison vison would have dried out, the dissection process would not have been as

Next, they traced the external jugular vein and its tributary veins on the surface of the right side of the neck and head. On the left side where the sternomastoid was cut, the students then located the deeper vessels running alongside the trachea, internal jugular vein, and the common carotid artery. In the abdominal cavity, the groups then exposed and studied the hepatic portal vein and its tributaries. They then identified the tributaries of the post cava, the renal, adrenolumbar, iliolumbar, iliac, and caudal vessels. The arteries of the gonads then came off the abdominal aorta cranial where the spermatic arteries were found. Using diagram 12, the lab groups carefully removed the fat surrounding the kidneys and genital organs using forceps and for blunt probe. They saved all ducts and blood vessels and exposed the kidneys. They then reflected on the ureter, urinary bladder, renal vein, renal cortex, renal medulla, renal pelvis, and the renal artery. Using diagram 14, the lab groups found the testicles and leaned them of fat. They cut and opened the tunic and identified the testis, epididymis, and the vas deferens. The last step of dissection made them trace the vas deferens to the urinary bladder. As a final step to the whole lab, the lab groups then removed all dissection pins, cleaned the dissection tools, placed the Neovison vison in a