With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had the ...

Before starting her first dissection, Katie Hopkins took the time to observe every feature of the hand she was about to work on. Realizing that she would be the last person to see the donor’s ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Recent data shows that about ...