What have you guys dissected?

Question: What have you guys dissected?
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Asked by #hashtag to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 13 Nov 2014.
- Robert Hampson answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  A rat, a heart, an eye, a kidney, my dinner …
- Ceri Dare answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  In school I dissected a pig heart. It was very interesting. But I don’t use dissection in my work – I use patient records, talking to people, and my computer!
- Matt Bilton answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  Nothing since school! I get given human lymph node samples to do research with quite a lot though – only what the doctor can extract with a needle on the end of a bronchoscope. I have colleagues who work with all sorts of weird samples too – skin, knee joint fluid, tonsils.
  
  Most recently I had to spit 15 mls into a tube which we span down to look for some white blood cells. My colleagues didn’t see much except for lots of epithelial cells that line the mouth, and unfortunately, bits of my breakfast.
- Sally Cutler answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  I am old enough to have had this for my GCSE practical for biology when we were given earthworms! One Christmas my biology teacher gave me a bag full of dogfish heads to study cranial nerves. I have also dissected various organs (from animals). It really helps you understand the structure, but I was rather put off anything yuckie!
- Marikka Beecroft answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  I dissect anything now but in my degree I did dissect a a mussel, that was so difficult they’re so small! I’ve also done a sheep’s eye, sheep’s heart and a fish (so smelly).

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