This afternoon CC and myself went to this exhibition where they showcase well preserved body using technique call plastination. The Bodyworld showcase a wide variety of human body in various positions and also their parts. These bodies looks like real flesh and blood and it is not disgusting because, I think, all the body were de-skin so it looks like another species. I would imagine it to be very errie if these bodies has their skin on like real dead bodies.
I also noticed that most of the body donated were male bodies. They all have this very long “string” that extend from their lower adominal to hold the scrotum. I didn’t know that this string are that long?! But my colleague who have seen it says that it could be because they are Caucasian.
For this exhibition they also show case giraffe and horse which, I heard, was previously not shown. All I can say about these animal’s body are that they have every thing big except their brain. In comparison to human brain, we still have a bigger brain than them! But what impresses me most was the complicated network of blood vessels that fill up our body. The network of veins are so dense that no matter where you puncture your body, you’re bound to bleed. Previously I was thinking that we’re a “bag of blood” that’s why we bleed everywhere. Haha now then I can finally visualize what they meant by our blood travel through blood vessels.
It was a tiring, fun, and educational tour.