Chapter 12 Quizzer

1. What does surgeon do with human skeleton after their dead?

There are two steps: cut down and pour off in the process of dealing with human skeleton. The skeleton was cut off by cutting away from the surrounding flesh and meat to separate from the skeleton. Residual meat and sinew are dissolved by boiling the bones in a solution in a few weeks. Before this method applied, people used to the insect based process for human skeleton. That is, fly larvae and carnivorous beetles perform their own scale- down and drawn the shape of cutting down.
2. What are author’s reasons to become a brain donor?

She thinks about the study of mental dysfunction, mental illness since animals do not infect with illness.
3. How do they do with brain donors?
They are maintained to be in flash-frozen before slicing into pieces. The brains are cut in half, one side being sliced and frozen, the other side sliced in formaldehyde.
4. What is Plastination and its procedure to do it?
It is the process of taking organic tissue and replacing the water with a silicone polymer, making creatures turn into a permanent version. Bodies are washed first, and then lay in a stainless tank of acetone filled with the smell of nail polish remover. The acetone turns into gas which is made from a vacuum reducing the internal pressure in a tank, creating the shape of body.

chapter 10+11 Graphic Organizier

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Chapter 9 Vocabulary builder

1.(v) dismiss (200): decide st/sb not important or not worth considering.
2.(v) undertake (200):to door begin st; promise that you will do st.
3.(v) dissipate (201) Formal: gradually disappear and waste.
4. (v) reside (201): to live
5.(adj) ghastly(200): unpleasant and shocking
6. (adj) absurd (200): ridiculous or unreasonable; foolish in an amusing way
7.(adj)aforementioned(201): mention earlier
8.(adj) fortitude (201): bravery over a long time
9.(n) trepidation( 204):Formal : fear and anxiety about what is going to happen
10.(n) noose (199); one end of the rope tied to form circle

chapter 7+8 summarizier

In chapter 7 which named Holy Cadavers deals with confirming the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin by the crucifixion experiments. An experiment, “pounding the nails into the hands and feet of an elfin”, conducted by a surgeon Barbet concluded that there are two strains running from the same sources but different ways, and at different angels. The first comes obliquely upwards and inwards whereas the second one flows slender and meandering. Explaining why blood followed two different parts, he pointed out that Jesus lifted up him and then drooped by his hands which were hanging. Barbet proceeded to experiment a lone arm crucifixion instead of the whole body. He expressed that the nail which forced through the space between two metacarpal heads took its own direction. Theory that addressed by Barbed seemed contrary to Zungie, a medical examiner. Barbet presented ideas that the wound on the back of the hand on the Shroud of Turin came out on the pinkie side while it appears on the thumb side. Zungie discovered that the crucifixion did not influence our breathing rhythms, nor did the blood flow different parts, or rather, wound would have been smeared.
Basically, this chapter exposed a new function of cadavers, not only for common practice such as the effects of bullets on human (chapter 6), but also for proof of holy perceptions.
Chapter 8 named How to Know If You’re Dead is about determination of whether or not it is the truly death, live burial, and the search for the soul . We took a look at a beating cadaver which was defined as a declared brain dead, but tissues and organs were still alive. After the next four hour, kidneys, heart, and livers would give up. Despite the brain death beating cadavers looked rejuvenated inside. We could feel the heat beat of the liver flowing to the aorta, saw the organ plumping and being slippery. , Searching for the location of the soul was a controversy between different beliefs. Egyptians, Pythagonies, and Astute considered heart was the seat for the soul, while Babylonian believed in the liver, Mesopotamian thought of both the heart and liver (intellectual for the heart, emotion for liver). Overall, it is concluded that the soul diffused throughout the body, which does not have a resting place.

Chapter 6 (Quizzer)

1. Why do people use large caliber bullets?
This is because they are efficient. With large caliber bullets, cattle dropped to the ground after three or four shots while small ones even failed after ten shots.
2. What is the difference between human and animals when they are being shot?
Falling to the ground depends on the state of human’s mind whereas animals do not know what means to be shot.
3. Why do people fall to the ground after being shot?
It is because impulses from massive pains are transmitted to the region of the brain named reticular activating system. Then, RAS sent those signals to the leg muscles and made them feel deteriorate. This led people easy to fall down.
4. What is the purpose of cadavers joining the army?
Cadavers seem useful since they provide understandings of “firing into dead bodies for the purpose of teaching the effects of gunshots in war.” In addition, body armor vests were designed to thwart munitions at people’s chest needs stiffs for experiments.

chapter 4+ 5 Graphic Organizer

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Chapter 3 Vocabulary Builder

1. (adj)Transparent(pg 65) subject /sustance is transparent-> see it clearly; clealy or easy to understand.
2. Sodden (70): extremly wet
3.Cloying(70): sickly wet
4. Lingering(71): last long time
5. Feign(64): pretend to feel something usually with an emotion.
6.Engress(66): a means/place of going out, an exit
7.Dummy(88) : a large model of human
8.Concussion (89): temporary damage to the brain caused by a fall or hit on the head or by violent shaking
9.revulsion(69) a strong, sudden feeling that somthing unpleasant
10.rejuvenate(80): make someone feelor look young, and energetic again.