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unusual facts about dissection



Aortic dissection

Surgery for aortic dissection was first introduced and developed by Michael E. DeBakey, Denton Cooley and Oscar Creech, cardiac surgeons associated with the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in 1954.

The earliest fully documented case of aortic dissection is attributed to Frank Nicholls in his autopsy report of King George II of Great Britain, who had been found dead on 25 October 1760; the report describes dissection of the aortic arch and into the pericardium.

Bombus vestalis

It is similar in appearance to another cuckoo bumblebee: Bombus bohemicus but is distinguishable by either looking at the length of the antennal segments or dissection and comparison of the genitalia.

David L. Bassett

He was an expert of anatomy and dissection at the University of Washington, best known for creating, in collaboration with William Gruber, the 25-volume "Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy" in 1962.

Femoral artery

Neither the 1910 illustration, nor any subsequent version, was made of an anatomical dissection but rather from the writings of John Hunter (surgeon) and Astley Cooper which described the genicular anastomosis many years after ligation of the femoral artery for popliteal aneurysm.

Good People in Love

A dinner party to celebrate an engagement turns into a night of manipulation, dissection and revelation when the story’s narrators, Scott (Jesse Wakeman) and Sarah (Rachael Hip-Flores) set out to prove their distinct points of view on love using the party’s two couples as unwitting examples opening up a pandora’s box of trouble for everyone.

Jon Nödtveidt

Early reports indicated that he was found with an open copy of the Satanic Bible, but these were later dismissed by Dissection's guitarist Set Teitan.

Museum of Lebanese Prehistory

The single showroom exhibition gave a dissection of the scene showing sites such as Tripoli, Jbeil, Tabarja, the bay of Jounieh, Antelias and memorable caves, Ras Beirut and Naam.

Professor Ivo

Ivo took to studying cybernetics and soon became an employee of the criminal organization Locus, where he gained new insights through the dissection of one of the Appellaxians.

Red Lodge Museum, Bristol

After the Henleys died the Red Lodge was leased to tenants practising medicine working at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, including James Cowles Pritchard who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Man, and Francis Cheyne Bowles and Richard Smith, who used the Great Oak Room as a dissection theatre.

Transverse cervical artery

Caption = Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck, showing the carotid and subclavian arteries (transverse cervical artery is labeled, branching from the thyrocervical trunk

Tree of physiology

This form of Sky burial, still practiced, begins with a ritual dissection of the deceased, and then followed by the feeding of the parts to Vultures on the hill tops.


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