Human Anatomy, 2/08, Period 3

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Elliot had a slide of the lymphatic system up on the screen behind her, and there was a strange-looking slab of meat rested on each lab table. She bounced on her toes before beginning.

"Okay guys, today we are learning about the lymphatic system. It's a little more complex than what we've covered so far, but I know you're up for it, so let's just jump in. The lymphatic system has three functions - it removes extra fluids from body tissues, absorbs fatty acids and transports fat to the circulatory system, and makes immune cells, like lymphocytes."

"The important parts of the lymphatic system are the cervical nodes, lymph vessels, thymus, axillary nodes, tonsils, spleen and inguinal nodes. You can remember them with the mnemonic, 'Children like to ask teachers sexual idioms.' " She went on with her lecture for a bit; when she was nearly done, her fingers went to the side of her throat. "If you have a tiny bit of a cold, or sore throat, or whatever, you can probably feel your cervical nodes, here. Don't press too hard, you could end up knocking yourself out." Her hands fluttered down to her sides.

"I just wanted to focus on one part of the system with more detail than your textbook covers, and that is the magnificent spleen. It's a ductless, vertebrate organ, and even though it's part of the lymphatic system, it's also associated with the circulatory system, where it helps destroy old red blood cells and holds a reservoir of blood. And what's really cool is that for a long time, no one really knew why we had it? But now we're figuring out that its absence can make you get some infections. Oh, and also, one in ten of you has an extra teensy spleen or three. It's harmless, just a little quirk that forms where the nerves and blood vessels enter the main spleen. It's all almost as cool as the endocrine system."

She pointed to the slabs on the tables. "Now strap on gloves and goggles, get into groups, and get to cutting up these cow spleens. You're looking for the splenic artery, the splenic vein, and the renal, colic and stomach areas."

[OOC: Wait for OCD, and blame the spleen thing on bugofjustice.]

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Sign in, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

La!

Re: Sign in, Anatomy, 2/08

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Yasutora Sado

Re: Sign in, Anatomy, 2/08

[bigfat-peter.livejournal.com]

Peter Griffin

General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Listen to the lecture, talk to the teacher, or pass notes to each other here.

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad took lots of good, attentive notes.

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry wrote down everything Dr. Reid said. He refrained from making anger jokes about the spleen.

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[sonofdragons.livejournal.com]

Tannim took notes and doodled Mustangs in the margins.

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[bampowcrashzap.livejournal.com]

As promised because SPLEEN OMG, Batman walked into the classroom, curious about what this teacher had for her students to learn about anatomy. Knowledge, apparently, was what she had.

He pulled a bat-notepad out of his utility belt and jotted something down with his bat-pen.

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Elliot eyed the man in the costume, and approached him after her lecture. "Hi, I'm Dr. Reid," she said. "I'm going to guess you're school board and don't just randomly like sitting in on high school classes."

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD noticed the guy in the funky costume come in. Without asking, or thinking about it, he reached out and started reaching for something random on the utility belt.

"Hey cool! How do I get one of these?"

Re: General Class Stuff, Anatomy, 2/08

[the-right-ray.livejournal.com]

Ray listened to the lecture and spent some time doodling.

Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Get into pairs and cut up them spleens.

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry looked around for a partner.

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD sat down next to Henry, also a future Doctor! and picked up the scalpel.

"Mmmmm. Tasty!"

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter looked for a partner.

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil looked around, spied the person he knew best in the class so far and gave a little shrug.

"I promise not to make you taste anything this time?"

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad was worried that his hands were too big for the latex gloves. At the very least, they were a pretty tight fit.

Re: Dissection, Anatomy, 2/08

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

Kabuto took out his own tools before setting to work, poking at the spleen boredly. It would be so much more interesting if they were doing human dissection.

Preferrably if the subject was still alive.

Sketchiness, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Add the lymphatic system to your body outlines. This is starting to look like it might be a midterm thing.

Re: Sketchiness, Anatomy, 2/08

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry took a bit more time with the lymphatic system than he had with the others. He gave the spleen particular detail.

Re: Sketchiness, Anatomy, 2/08

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD hopes this sketch isn't going to count for much, because his looks like it was drawn by a 4th grader. And those rats are getting a bit pudgy.

When he hoped Dr. Reid wasn't looking, he tried to slip them each an orea. And, because he felt guilty, he also had a few apple slices.

OOC, Anatomy, 2/08

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

To hold the post together. Much like the spleen.

Re: OOC, Anatomy, 2/08

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

SPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Re: OOC, Anatomy, 2/08

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend has no spleen.

*nods*

Re: OOC, Anatomy, 2/08

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

I should not be having nostalgic flashbacks to the time we made cow brain soup in second grade science (oh, the days before bovine spongiform encephalopathy, I miss you), but YOU JUST MADE ME HAVE THEM.

The flashbacks, I mean, not the soup. Because aaaaaaaagh.