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Male Chest with Lungs and Heart Body Slice Specimen

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Male Chest with Lungs and Heart Body Slice Specimen

Category

Health and Medicine

Classification

CHENHALL - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Biological T&E - Biospecimen

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Cross section of a human chest in the general shape of a half circle shape, approximately 11 inches in diameter and 0.5 inches in thickness. The outside perimeter is a white band, followed by a yellowish band of bone. At the center of the specimen is the human heart that is beige in color and has two (2) main holes. There are two (2) grayish or black lungs, one (1) on each side of the heart. Each lung has has blue and pale yellow patches througho...

Materials:

human tissue

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 8 in, Width: 12 in, Depth: 0.75 in

Credit

Gift of Loyola University Medical Center, 43.51.2.16

Display Status

On Exhibit

Male Chest with Lungs and Heart Body Slice Specimen

About: Male Chest with Lungs and Heart Body Slice Specimen

About: Male Chest with Lungs and Heart Body Slice Specimen

This is a body slice of the chest of a male. The two darker sections are the lungs, and the thin valves of the heart can be seen in between them. The small white circle opposite the heart is the spinal cord. Colored wax has been used as a stain to highlight the different components. These body slices served as teaching tools for medical students in the 1930s and 1940s. They were provided by the Loyola University School of Medicine and the University of Illinois Department of Anatomy, and were refurbished by Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. The man and woman died of natural causes. Their bodies were frozen, cut into sections, and then preserved in glass containers filled with a formaldehyde solution.

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