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Male Abdominal Body Slice Specimen
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Male Abdominal 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 abdomen that has an oval shape of 11 inches long, with a thickness of 0.5 inches. The outermost layer is white, followed by a thin light pink band, and then an inner ring of dark red. At the center of the specimen is a yellowish circular shape. Above the shape is a vertical line of grayish white in the middle of two dark red circles. Below the circular shape are two (2) general sections. The lower sections consists of sev...
human tissue
Measurements: Object:
Height: 7 in, Width: 11 in, Depth: 0.75 in
Credit
Gift of Loyola University Medical Center, 43.51.2.20
Display Status
On Exhibit
Male Abdominal Body Slice Specimen
About: Male Abdominal Body Slice Specimen
About: Male Abdominal Body Slice Specimen
This is a body slice in the horizontal, or transverse, plane of the abdomen of a male. The visible tubes are the large intestines, and the other organ is the lower end of the liver. 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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