Taylor,"The Teenager" Is Here! Visit to Union Station and Bodies Revealed Exhibit
This mother hen has all he chicks in her hen house!
Now, let's see if I can keep some order
he he
Taylor flew in today at 1:50. We went to Crown Center
and Union Station. We went to Pierpont's
and had a snack and visited with each other.
http://www.crowncenter.com/
http://www.unionstation.org/
http://www.herefordhouse.com/content/pierponts.php
After that, I surprised her with the Bodies Revealed exhibit.
I was actually scared to go, but thought I would experience
it with Taylor for an educational piece. Very shocking!
Interesting and surreal. I wonder who the people where
and what kind of life they lived. They were exposed in full
nudity, skeletel and disection. Learn more below.
Would love to hear your feedback on this controversial subject!
http://www.bodiesrevealed.com/index-home.html
Using real human specimens, painstakingly prepared
and respectfully displayed, the Bodies Revealed exhibition
lets visitors of all ages explore deep within the human body
in a way that informs but doesn’t overwhelm.
As the visitor moves from gallery to gallery, the exhibition uses
14 full body human specimens and over 200 organs to tell the
story of the miraculous systems at work within each of us every
second of our existence. Rooted in the historical precedent set
by such great anatomists as Vesalius and da Vinci, each full
body specimen is dissected to best reveal the function of a
complete anatomical system and to show that system’s
relationship to the body as a whole. The full body specimens
are complimented by presentation cases of related individual
organs, both healthy and diseased, that provided an even
more detailed look into the elements that comprise each system.
Our bodies are our most important possession. They are
intricately developed machines; more complex and wondrous
than all the computers and gadgetry we surround ourselves
with today. Yet many of us do not know what makes us
tick—how we function, what we need to survive, what
destroys us, what revives us. Bodies Revealed, made
possible through the process of Polymer Preservation,
is an attempt to remedy that lack of knowledge by presenting
to the lay public material that was previously only available to
the medical profession: a three-dimensional tour of the human body.
Countless visitors have remarked that the knowledge gained from
the experience has provided them with a new connection to their
own bodies. Others claim a new reverence for life and a desire to
take a more preventative approach to their health care. To quote
writer and philosopher John Conger whose words are displayed
in the exhibition, “Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self
cannot be known.”
Polymer Preservation: The Process
This education-rich exhibition is made possible through the process of Polymer Preservation, a process that consists of several essential steps.
First, a human body must be obtained through a legal, willed body donation program. These programs exist around the world and serve to provide anatomical material that assists medical and scientific communities in their ongoing research and educational endeavors. Willed body donation is an anonymous process with donor names universally withheld to protect the privacy of the individual donors and their families. Once obtained each donated body is embalmed according to standard mortuary practices. During this process the body is perfused with a preserving agent like formalin to prevent normal tissue decay.
After a body is embalmed a trained dissector is employed to prepare it, or some part of it, according to predetermined guidelines, so that it may best educate and inform the general public and a medical audience. Because of the detailed work involved in the dissection on a full body specimen, this stage of the process may take several months to complete; individual organs can be prepared much more quickly.
Once dissection of the body/specimen is completed, it is thoroughly rinsed in cold running water. This helps cleanse it of as much of the preserving agent as possible. Rinsing a specimen the size of a whole body can take up to one week to complete.
The dissected and washed body/specimen is now ready to be dehydrated. This is accomplished by submersing it in acetone, a highly volatile chemical that, through the process of normal diffusion, acts to replace all of the tissue water in the specimen. Acetone is the perfect dehydrating agent for the process of Polymer Preservation because of its high vapor pressure, a characteristic that will facilitate its leaving the specimen when it is subsequently placed under vacuum.
Next, the acetone-saturated body/specimen is placed in an impregnating solution that consists of a mixture of liquid silicone polymer and crosslinker. The impregnation solution of silicone polymer and crosslinker is now placed into a vacuum chamber where it is subjected to a gradual increase in vacuum pressure. As the vacuum pressure increases, the acetone leaves the specimen in the form of a gas and is replaced by the polymer-crosslinker mixture. This seamless transfer creates a specimen that is now completely impregnated with liquid silicone even down to the cellular level. This step in the Polymer Preservation process can take from several hours to an entire week depending on the size of the specimen being impregnated. The crosslinker is an important component of the impregnating solution, as its presence will eventually allow the liquid silicone to be hardened during the final stage of the process known as curing.
Now completely impregnated with liquid silicone, the body/specimen must finally be cured to allow for its permanent educational display. During this process a special chemical agent, called a catalyst, is applied to the exterior of the specimen. The catalyst reacts chemically with the crosslinker in the specimen causing the liquid silicone polymer to harden (repolymerize). Either before or after the specimen is cured it can be selectively colored to make it more suitable for public display.
The end product of the Polymer Preservation process is a dry, odorless specimen that resists decomposition thus allowing its user to create a unique collection of permanently preserved human specimen for public exhibition.
by Dr. Roy Glover, Medical Director
An introduction to your body: system by system
Skeletal System
Like the frame of a house, the skeleton forms the internal structure of the body. It resists the pull of gravity and protects vital organs, while over 100 joints provide it with remarkable mobility. All bones store important mineral salts; in addition, red bone marrow in the flat and long bones creates 2.5 million new red blood cells each second.
Muscular System
The muscular system is the engine that drives the body. By connecting across the joints of the skeleton, muscles create levers that, when they contract, move the bones. Other types of muscles move food through the digestive tract, blood through the blood vessels and keep the heart beating every second of your life. Like any good engine, the muscular system also produces heat, which helps maintain body temperature.
Nervous System
Faster than the world's most powerful computer, the nervous system transmits information through nerve cells at speeds above 270 miles per hour. As the main organ of the nervous system, the brain determines the appropriate response to thousands of pieces of information each second, while also maintaining all vital body functions as well as processing thoughts and emotions.
Respiratory System
The surface area of the lungs is great enough that, if spread out, it would cover half a football field.
The body requires a constant supply of oxygen for life. The respiratory system provides oxygen by drawing air into the lungs and supplying oxygen to the bloodstream through the diffusion of gasses. While oxygen passes into the bloodstream, carbon dioxide-a waste product made by every cell in the body-passes into the lungs and is exhaled at the end of each breath.
Digestive System
One of the world's most efficient dis-assembly lines, the digestive system uses a combination of mechanical and chemical processes to break down the food we eat and convert it into nutrients that the body can use for food.
Urinary System
The complex filtration within the kidneys requires over 100 miles of blood vessels.
Through a process of continual and complex filtration, the urinary system collects metabolic waste products from the blood and removes them from the body while maintaining the proper balance of water and electrolytes in the blood.
Reproductive System and Fetal Development
While every other cell in the body has 46 chromosomes, the female sex cell, the egg, and the male sex cell, the sperm, have only 23. Only when the egg and sperm combine is a new cell created that is capable of developing into a human.
Circulatory System
Crisscrossing the body in a fine weave, the blood vessels of the circulatory system hold the body together. They transport everything the cell needs to maintain life. The circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body, as well as powerful guardian cells that seek out and destroy any virus or bacteria.
The Treated Body
Thanks to medical research, we are living longer and staying healthier. Advanced diagnostic equipment, like Magnetic Resonance Instruments (MRI), has greatly assisted in diagnosing and pinpointing disease, making surgery more accurate and efficient. Thorough study of human anatomy, thorough educational vehicles such as the specimens in Bodies Revealed, has also enabled the development of prosthetic replacements for many parts of the body and specialized tools that help surgeons gain access to and monitor regions of the body in the operating room.
Now, let's see if I can keep some order
he heTaylor flew in today at 1:50. We went to Crown Center
and Union Station. We went to Pierpont's
and had a snack and visited with each other.
http://www.crowncenter.com/
http://www.unionstation.org/
http://www.herefordhouse.com/content/pierponts.php
After that, I surprised her with the Bodies Revealed exhibit.
I was actually scared to go, but thought I would experience
it with Taylor for an educational piece. Very shocking!
Interesting and surreal. I wonder who the people where
and what kind of life they lived. They were exposed in full
nudity, skeletel and disection. Learn more below.
Would love to hear your feedback on this controversial subject!
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http://www.bodiesrevealed.com/index-home.html
Using real human specimens, painstakingly prepared
and respectfully displayed, the Bodies Revealed exhibition
lets visitors of all ages explore deep within the human body
in a way that informs but doesn’t overwhelm.
As the visitor moves from gallery to gallery, the exhibition uses
14 full body human specimens and over 200 organs to tell the
story of the miraculous systems at work within each of us every
second of our existence. Rooted in the historical precedent set
by such great anatomists as Vesalius and da Vinci, each full
body specimen is dissected to best reveal the function of a
complete anatomical system and to show that system’s
relationship to the body as a whole. The full body specimens
are complimented by presentation cases of related individual
organs, both healthy and diseased, that provided an even
more detailed look into the elements that comprise each system.
Our bodies are our most important possession. They are
intricately developed machines; more complex and wondrous
than all the computers and gadgetry we surround ourselves
with today. Yet many of us do not know what makes us
tick—how we function, what we need to survive, what
destroys us, what revives us. Bodies Revealed, made
possible through the process of Polymer Preservation,
is an attempt to remedy that lack of knowledge by presenting
to the lay public material that was previously only available to
the medical profession: a three-dimensional tour of the human body.
Countless visitors have remarked that the knowledge gained from
the experience has provided them with a new connection to their
own bodies. Others claim a new reverence for life and a desire to
take a more preventative approach to their health care. To quote
writer and philosopher John Conger whose words are displayed
in the exhibition, “Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self
cannot be known.”
This education-rich exhibition is made possible through the process of Polymer Preservation, a process that consists of several essential steps.
First, a human body must be obtained through a legal, willed body donation program. These programs exist around the world and serve to provide anatomical material that assists medical and scientific communities in their ongoing research and educational endeavors. Willed body donation is an anonymous process with donor names universally withheld to protect the privacy of the individual donors and their families. Once obtained each donated body is embalmed according to standard mortuary practices. During this process the body is perfused with a preserving agent like formalin to prevent normal tissue decay.
After a body is embalmed a trained dissector is employed to prepare it, or some part of it, according to predetermined guidelines, so that it may best educate and inform the general public and a medical audience. Because of the detailed work involved in the dissection on a full body specimen, this stage of the process may take several months to complete; individual organs can be prepared much more quickly.
Once dissection of the body/specimen is completed, it is thoroughly rinsed in cold running water. This helps cleanse it of as much of the preserving agent as possible. Rinsing a specimen the size of a whole body can take up to one week to complete.
The dissected and washed body/specimen is now ready to be dehydrated. This is accomplished by submersing it in acetone, a highly volatile chemical that, through the process of normal diffusion, acts to replace all of the tissue water in the specimen. Acetone is the perfect dehydrating agent for the process of Polymer Preservation because of its high vapor pressure, a characteristic that will facilitate its leaving the specimen when it is subsequently placed under vacuum.
Next, the acetone-saturated body/specimen is placed in an impregnating solution that consists of a mixture of liquid silicone polymer and crosslinker. The impregnation solution of silicone polymer and crosslinker is now placed into a vacuum chamber where it is subjected to a gradual increase in vacuum pressure. As the vacuum pressure increases, the acetone leaves the specimen in the form of a gas and is replaced by the polymer-crosslinker mixture. This seamless transfer creates a specimen that is now completely impregnated with liquid silicone even down to the cellular level. This step in the Polymer Preservation process can take from several hours to an entire week depending on the size of the specimen being impregnated. The crosslinker is an important component of the impregnating solution, as its presence will eventually allow the liquid silicone to be hardened during the final stage of the process known as curing.
Now completely impregnated with liquid silicone, the body/specimen must finally be cured to allow for its permanent educational display. During this process a special chemical agent, called a catalyst, is applied to the exterior of the specimen. The catalyst reacts chemically with the crosslinker in the specimen causing the liquid silicone polymer to harden (repolymerize). Either before or after the specimen is cured it can be selectively colored to make it more suitable for public display.
The end product of the Polymer Preservation process is a dry, odorless specimen that resists decomposition thus allowing its user to create a unique collection of permanently preserved human specimen for public exhibition.
by Dr. Roy Glover, Medical Director
Like the frame of a house, the skeleton forms the internal structure of the body. It resists the pull of gravity and protects vital organs, while over 100 joints provide it with remarkable mobility. All bones store important mineral salts; in addition, red bone marrow in the flat and long bones creates 2.5 million new red blood cells each second.
The muscular system is the engine that drives the body. By connecting across the joints of the skeleton, muscles create levers that, when they contract, move the bones. Other types of muscles move food through the digestive tract, blood through the blood vessels and keep the heart beating every second of your life. Like any good engine, the muscular system also produces heat, which helps maintain body temperature.
Faster than the world's most powerful computer, the nervous system transmits information through nerve cells at speeds above 270 miles per hour. As the main organ of the nervous system, the brain determines the appropriate response to thousands of pieces of information each second, while also maintaining all vital body functions as well as processing thoughts and emotions.
The surface area of the lungs is great enough that, if spread out, it would cover half a football field.
The body requires a constant supply of oxygen for life. The respiratory system provides oxygen by drawing air into the lungs and supplying oxygen to the bloodstream through the diffusion of gasses. While oxygen passes into the bloodstream, carbon dioxide-a waste product made by every cell in the body-passes into the lungs and is exhaled at the end of each breath.
One of the world's most efficient dis-assembly lines, the digestive system uses a combination of mechanical and chemical processes to break down the food we eat and convert it into nutrients that the body can use for food.
The complex filtration within the kidneys requires over 100 miles of blood vessels.
Through a process of continual and complex filtration, the urinary system collects metabolic waste products from the blood and removes them from the body while maintaining the proper balance of water and electrolytes in the blood.
While every other cell in the body has 46 chromosomes, the female sex cell, the egg, and the male sex cell, the sperm, have only 23. Only when the egg and sperm combine is a new cell created that is capable of developing into a human.
Crisscrossing the body in a fine weave, the blood vessels of the circulatory system hold the body together. They transport everything the cell needs to maintain life. The circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body, as well as powerful guardian cells that seek out and destroy any virus or bacteria.
Thanks to medical research, we are living longer and staying healthier. Advanced diagnostic equipment, like Magnetic Resonance Instruments (MRI), has greatly assisted in diagnosing and pinpointing disease, making surgery more accurate and efficient. Thorough study of human anatomy, thorough educational vehicles such as the specimens in Bodies Revealed, has also enabled the development of prosthetic replacements for many parts of the body and specialized tools that help surgeons gain access to and monitor regions of the body in the operating room.
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