Fetal Pig Dissection Guide

Hints & Tips

1. General Dissection Tips - How to dissect both efficiently and carefully. What are the right tools for the job.

2. Comparisons to Human Structures - How is fetal pig anatomy similar to human anatomy? What are the interesting differences?

3. Tips on Muscle Dissection - Notes clarifying the dissection of some muscles.

4. Tips on Dissection of Organs - Notes clarifying the dissection of some of the internal organs.

5. Tips on Vessel Dissection - Notes clarifying the dissection of some of the blood vessels.

 

 

Pig Illustration You may return to the Fetal Pig Dissection Guide home page, or see the list of credits, or view the table of contents, a list of illustrations, a two page sample of the contents, examples of medical notes, a page of pig and dissection humor, or a description of why fetal pigs are good dissection specimens.

Please send questions and comments to James S. Miller

Last updated January 1998

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