The Body Worlds exhibit is in Salt Lake City at The Leonardo Museum. Brandon and I decided to go up and see it. It was awesome! I loved it. It brought me back to my anatomy lab days of working on the cadavers. I remember teaching in the anatomy lab and always sharing Elder Russell M. Nelson's (Cardiothoracic Surgeon by Profession) speech entitled The Magnificence of Man (click the title to read or skim the speech). It is such a neat talk about the human body and magnificent creation that it is.If you haven't seen Body Worlds or know anything about it, here is a little sneak peak at what you would get. If you don't like to look at cadavers in any way, I suggest you stop here.
This is the Archer. The forearm muscles are amazingly dissected on this cadaver. The forearm muscle unit is one of the hardest to learn because of how many muscles are actually in the forearm with long-4-word names.
The vessels around this heart are so intricate. I guess they inject a dye into the bloodstream and then dissect all the tissue off, leaving only the vasculature. The entire process is called plastination. The capillary network is so tiny and amazing. Our bodies are the coolest.
This one is the Hurdler.
The soccer player isn't actually at the Salt Lake Exhibition, but I found the picture while searching for others.
The Horse Back Riders. I wonder how many hours it took to dissect this entire piece. Horses have great musculature.
2 comments:
So cool!! I'm glad you posted about this because I had no idea the exhibit was coming to Salt Lake. Jared really wanted to go when they had the exhibit in Vegas, but we never made it down. BUT, now we can go during Thanksgiving break when we're down! Awesome!!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
What I want to know is how he's preserved the bodies in these forms...
The exhibit was in Minneapolis when we moved out here so we were able to see it! I saw it soon after I finished my anatomy course, first year of med school. I thought it was amazing but nothing is as cool as personally studying and dissecting a cadaver.
I will always remember our teaching together in anatomy. We were awesome first time TA's! Good times. I will always remember the BYU anatomy lab and all the awesome people we worked with!
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