The Dissection

You smell that? That must be our frog. Isn't he appetizing?

Picture of our specimen in anatomical position; fully dissected trunk with identified and labeled organs.

STEP 1:

To perform the dissection, we placed the specimen on the tray in its anatomical position, as you can see in the picture.

STEP 2:

We began by making a cut along its mid-sagittal plane, starting from the specimen’s pelvic region, throughout its entire trunk.

STEP 3:

We followed with cuts leading outwards from both ends of the previous cut in order to remove flaps of the skin so we could get a better look at the specimen’s innards.

STEP 4:

Once the trunk was exposed, we identified our specimen's gender (male) and identified all of the organs we could; we continued the mid-sagittal cut up to the cephalic region in order to expose the brain and tongue.

STEP 5:

Once we identified the brain, tongue, spinal cord and esophagus, we began cutting out and severing connective tissue so we could identify the last of the organs.