Word: cadaverous
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Before formal study begins, students have an opportunity to go into the lab early, look at their assigned cadaver, and get used to the idea of dissecting a human being.
Four students are assigned to a cadaver. Their tools include forceps and scalpels, but also grislier instruments which might look more appropriate at a hardware store: hacksaws, wooden mallets, and pliers for cutting ribs.
A dissection group spends the next eight weeks not only getting to know the cadaver's insides, but also developing a sense of what the person might have been like when alive. They find clues to personality and reminders of the body's humanity that are sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing...
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