dissection lab
Scalpel and specimens
A dissection lab is a classroom or facility where students cut apart preserved specimens—typically frogs, fetal pigs, or cadavers—to study anatomy.
The term evokes the particular atmosphere of these spaces: chemical preservatives, steel tables, and the queasy threshold between science and squeamishness.
I still remember the smell of formaldehyde from my high school dissection lab.
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- formaldehydeColorless pungent preservative gas
- cadaverBody for dissection
- specimenIndividual for examination
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
frog · incision · tweezers · organs · organ systems · body cavity · preserved · tray · gloves · rubber gloves · lab coat · surgical mask · sterile · biology · biology class · high school · probe · pinned
- science labbeaker, flask, microscope, test tube, lab coat
- medical educationmedical schools, medical school, med schools, med school, med student
dissection lablecture hall
Room for academic presentations
lecture theater · auditorium · seminar room · classroom · reading room
dissection laboperating room
Surgical procedure venue
veterinary clinic · vivarium · nature preserve · hospital ward · intensive care unit
dissection, dissect, dissected, dissecting, dissector, section, sectional, sect, sector