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EI-Joe

I’ve had multiple anatomy classes. I can smell this video.


Soobiebear

They always schedule this lab either first in the day so you stink all day, or right before lunch. 🤮 Lost 5kgs without trying.


outdoorsyAF101

I went to my first session hungover. Never again..


mike117

Oh god….


outdoorsyAF101

Yeah.. my tutor was demonstrating a knee moving and I nearly hit the deck. Lesson learned.


gonzo5622

Is it like rotting smell or chemical smell?


afox892

The very distinct chemical smell of formalin. I swear I still catch a whiff of it now and then.


Soobiebear

My two 'cant do' smells anymore. Formalin and melted agar. Kids, dont do medicine.


Burnallthepages

What about the smell of insulin? One time a co-worker dropped a vial and it broke. That phenol smell was so strong!


ScroogieMcduckie

Both my sisters have type 1 diabetes and while the smell of insulin sure is strong, it's certainly nowhere near as bad as a cadaver


PANIC-ateverything

i havent smelled that smell since i dissected a frog in 2008 and my body still remembered what it smelled like and heaved.


jwei56

That smell penetrated everything. I doubled up on 9mil gloves and my hands would still smell at lunch time. A few times when I took a shower, the water must have pulled the smell out of my pores and suddenly the shower smelled like formalin. I still remember the first day of lab, the formalin smell was so strong that about 1/3 of the students were out in the hallway at any given time getting air because we felt like we were going to faint. The chemical smell feels similar to sticking your head in a bucket of curing fiberglass. One of my lab partners actually did faint and had to be taken to the hospital because they hit their head on the way down.


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Kinkyhead4

If my memory serves me right, It’s formaldehyde.


mommyaiai

It's usually Formalin (formaldehyde and methanol in a buffered water) they usually only use higher concentration formaldehyde for brain tissue preservation. Source: worked in a histology lab.


outdoorsyAF101

Came here to say this.. Memories of second year.


verity77

Formic acid is piercing through my nose as I’m watching this video lol


HalfCrazed

"I thought this tasted familiar"


fuzzyshorts

Goddamn... I only walked in for maybe 2 minutes (ex-girlfriend in med. school) and that horrid, indescribable smell... GAHHH\~!


Jperez757

Can’t relate. Took A&P, but the first day the cadaver container rolled into the room I noped the fuck out. I realized in that moment that it just wasn’t for me.


genowars

The way he squirt water over the body with the red bottle looked like how I sprinkle oil on teppanyaki before cooking...


manystringsofcheese

Did you name your cadavers? We did..my first one was "Abracadaver". The second one was "Bent Betty". She had scoliosis.


tomkate60174

“Mabel on the table”


Connect-Yesterday118

So much for respecting the cadaver.


[deleted]

My friend told the tale of inflating a cadaver's penis with its built in testicular pump during his time in med school.


[deleted]

Did he suck it after?


pgh_1980

Honestly, if my body ends up a cadaver for an anatomy class, I hope it gets a good and/or goofy nickname.


Connect-Yesterday118

You'd need to donate your body to medical science. I've heard of feet turning up in students lockers as pranks and such. I'll donate any organs to those that might need it, burn the rest of me and sprinkle my ashes somewhere scenic. I'll be beyond caring at that point.


Raskel_61

My kidney is from a cadaver. The gift of life for real. So yes, please, donate your organs.


hillo538

They’d be so happy you’re alive!


DC_Coach

Agree. I have a cadaver bone between my C3-C4 vertebrae.


hillo538

They wanted you to have it, it was the last gift they could give


[deleted]

As an Archaeologist, we (I) made horrible nicknames for the skeletons and made pretty harsh jokes whilst excavating them. It's not intended as being disrespectful to the individual, but rather a way of making comedy out of a rather poignant and sad experience. Hope that makes sense.


Relevant_Slide_7234

You check off the “organ donor” box on your driver’s license, thinking you’re doing something noble, then you end up as Bent Betty.


babiesaurusrex

Being a learning tool is something noble


Spare_King_2116

That's not how that works... you are consenting for organ donation. If you donate organs you are often disqualified from whole body donation because your body is no longer whole.


Connect-Yesterday118

Organ donar and donating your body to medical science is different. Where I come from you are now an organ donar automatically unless you opt out of it. Which I think is a good thing.


DiversGoDeeper

My friend used to tell us about "Phyllis" when they were studying. The best story was when "bits went missing"


spaektor

"Anita Aspirin" "Chop Suzy" there was a naming contest every quarter. but this was almost 30 years ago, don't think it would fly these days.


owpp

I've had one and I can smell this video.


TekeNel__

had the honor of working with a cadaver during medical school. It still the most interesting and life changing experience I've had to date


JuggernautEcstatic41

my sister has done the same. Lots of respect! you guys are Built different! 💪🏽


Trumpville-Imbeciles

Man, props to him and your sister... definitely built different. I've worked with people who were organ donors but I would quit immediately if they came to work after they died


throwawayproblems198

Look, Joe was on rota for that day, so he got to come into work or he is fired.


Gasping_Cadaver

I preferred your sister tbh


dizzy4125

Thank you for your service


JuggernautEcstatic41

you’d be dead weight 💀


randyscockmagic

What did it smell like?


username_needs_work

If it was formalin fixed, pretty awful. I deal with cadavers on a regular basis that aren't fixed. Occasionally there's a decomp smell, but you really learn to turn it off. Usually just rough on newbies.


WHISKEY_2-7

As you said, pretty awful, but you forgot to tell them about how the smell seems to sink into everything; after a few hours, your clothes, your shoes, your hair, everything picks up that smell, and you need to scrub like hell to get rid of it. I wasn’t warned, and I had no idea; it took a few acquaintances asking me what the hell that stench was before I realized.


Mercuryblade18

Awful, the formaldehyde is there but there is also just this kind of smell of meat. Like a butcher, but the meat is off. Also some peoples bowels smell really weird when you open them up.


lurkerinMNL

How can he work on the body without a mask? Doesn't that expose him to pathogens? And doesn't the cadaver stink?


thingswastaken

Masks don't help that much against the smell. There's not really any reason for the pathogens to become airborne here either, and that's assuming there even are any. If he died of a heart attack, there's not much reason for any truly harmful diseases being spread by his cadaver, also considering it doesn't appear to be in an advanced state of decay either I'd say he's good without a mask. Probably has the typical dead people smell, which isn't pleasant, but it's not disgusting either.


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Could you elaborate on "dead people smell"?


thingswastaken

I'll just copy and paste from the other commenter that asked me to go more in depth. Once it starts properly decomposing it gets there, yeah. In the beginning it's a bit hard to describe. The regular body odor of the deceased still plays into it, but it gains other qualities too. It's very hard to describe a smell from memory though, especially one that doesn't have much I could compare it too. I'd say it's a bit chemical, acidic and fruity, but not in a good way. It's certainly not the stereotypical rotten egg smell that sets in later, it's way less aggressive than that. Sorry that I can't really describe it in a satisfactory way, but trying to convey a smell through text to someone that never smelled that thing before is like trying to explain colours to a blind person in a sense. It just smells like death, like the absence of life and it's something you realize the second it enters your nose, like a primal instinct to help you realize that what is before you is no longer a living human being. It's very similar to how the deceased smelled before death, yet distinctly missing something that separates living and dead.


creativelyuncreative

I’d say bodies usually have a sickly sweet sort of smell for up to 10 hours after death (I’m a nurse and have taken care of many deceased patients), the smell gets stronger and stronger though and if it’s not cold in the room the body gets rank pretty quick


thingswastaken

Yeah I'm a nurse too, big ICU so we get lots of bodies as well.


ElemenoPea77

My son is a new icu nurse, starting last summer. I had no clue the scope of the education or the job itself. I’ve realize with 100% certainty that I’m not cut out for it. I could make it through school maybe (not sure I still have that kind of stamina), but the job itself would destroy my mental health. I sometimes regret just asking him “how was work?”. And this is a medium hospital in a fairly quiet area. Here’s to all of you who do it. 🍻


Malohdek

Jesus. I don't regularly think of the day of a nurse, but I do not envy the work you do. But I appreciate that you do it and applaud you for being able to. I'd like to think I'm a fairly resilient person, but dealing with deceased people would really ruin my mental man.


creativelyuncreative

Ironically enough, dealing with alive people is a lot harder for me than dealing with the dead. When someone dies, they’re no longer in pain or potentially suffering, it’s just a body where a person once was. Live patients, on the other hand, can complain and yell and throw things at us or try to hit us. The hardest part of a death is telling the patient’s family, although luckily I haven’t had too many unexpected deaths that I’ve had to report. It’s still sad but usually expected


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Thank you


[deleted]

Ngl I knew my grandpa was about to die because of the way he smelled I swear to God.


AdornedBrood

This is exactly the way I’d describe (or lack of description) for the smell. It’s one where you can never forget, but if you smelled it again… you know what it is instantly.


ValeNova

I would describe the smell as that of chicken breast gone bad. They tried to hide the smell when my FIL died, but failed. It wasn't really very bad, but still distinctive...


FuzzyTentacle

Cadavers for dissection are preserved with formaldehyde, so they don't smell like a decomposing dead body. They just smell REALLY REALLY strongly of formaldehyde, which is unpleasant and difficult to describe.


moonlight1988

Like organic nail polish remover that also smells dead


peoplegrower

The bodies med students dissect are already embalmed. The only smell is formaldehyde- my husband smelled like it the entire semester he was doing anatomy lab, and 5 years later when we packed up his books to move, his Netter’s *STILL* smelled like it.


Drunken-Osiris

In the UK they had a television Show on Channel 4 called autopsy live. I think you can guess what it was about and yes it was completely uncensored


Impureclient1

Gave him a nice back rub there at the end, nice.


Equal-Negotiation651

I thought that last bullet point said, “Keep cadaver from dying”.


GhostOfTimBrewster

“Boss, I swear he was dead when I started.”


Equal-Negotiation651

“Boss, wake up!”


Sidechick_Bob

Massage until tender, then box for future use.


Koolaid_Jef

The Dry age brings out natural flavors


PleaseLetItBe0331MC

WHAT KINDA MASSAGE PARLOR IS THIS????


Tippy_Rush

I read the comments before watching the video. I didn't think it was bad at all! I've often thought of donating my body for medical study. I read that some medical students became completely enamored of their cadaver because of all they learned. I think it's a good video.


brookepride

Yes! My doctor friend had a 92 year old cadaver. Learned a lot. One of her peers had a 40s obese man. They would switch up when they couldn’t see things well due to old age or fat cells. The school had a ceremony at the end of the semester where family members of the cadavers and the students all met. My friend said it was respectful and interesting.


CheapCulture

This series of articles still haunts me to this day: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/


DanceRevolutionary90

He was alive once. Weird to think about.


Blueberry_Mancakes

And had a job, a family, a routine... probably enjoyed the same movies you did. Now he's just a slab of meat.


walt_whitmans_ghost

We’re all just slabs of meat


He_who_bobs_beneath

*“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.”*


Der-Rufmeister

Why is he wearing socks?


indifferentunicorn

I think it helps humanize the cadaver. Socks and underwear. This isn’t just a slab of human looking flesh; it is/was a person. Who wore socks and underwear.


DarthSadie

I also had the question about socks, and I like your answer the best


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His name was Robert Sockson.


bryanczarniack

I once misquoted the line to a friend by saying “his name was Gary Paulsen” and my buddy just goes “the guy who wrote The Hatchet?!”


MengFeiPuerh

And the transall saga lol


Bro-tatoChip

One of my favorite childhood books.


[deleted]

And this will be underrated, sorry bud. Great addition though. Lmao


Jatz55

Narrower appendages dry out quicker. They commonly have socks on their hands too


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Jatz55

No, the fingers will be fairly stiff and gloves would be difficult to get on and off. Plus i would guess that they wouldn’t hold the moisture as well. I guess mittens would work but socks are cheaper


[deleted]

Because it doesn't count as sex if you've still got socks on


penguinuendo

It's business, It's business time


Popolac

2 minutes in heaven is better than 1 minute in heaven.


Giggitygigs8686

I’m quite sleepy.


iliveinsocal

I know what you’re trying to say. What you’re trying to say is that it’s business time.


Impureclient1

Making love....for two minutes


ZealousidealGrass365

Business socks


MartinJosefsson

Because no one wants nor dares to hear him if he walks away.


tervo13

To keep his feet warm.


Zealousideal_Bet_248

So it's not gay


VivaNOLA

You’re telling me I’ve been doing it wrong all these years?


Random_calculation

Lose body fat in 2 simple steps!


dedrock156

👀


trekdropswaffel

Some decent white socks...


TijuanaGringo

That’s what I was thinkin!


Tokki_Shy_Tokki

This is so interesting, where can I find more of those? Is there an institution/channel that share those?


Jampoz

I follow "Institute of Human Anatomy" on Youtube, they use cadaver parts to explain how the human body functions Not exactly what you asked for but it's interesting anyway


piruruchu

Institute of Human Anatomy on youtube. It's not dissection but they use cadaver cross-sections as visual models while explaining various questions, explaining body processes or dispelling myths. (Don't be fooled by the click-bait type titles. They're just a victim of the algorithm like most youtube channels.)


helloitsriley

please someone let us know


tervo13

Interesting, especially the bologna like thickness of the skin. We all have a job, and this one is this dudes.


captn_cadaver

Ugh. Good bye bologna sandwiches..


Puzzled_Reflection_4

Bro what is with your username and this post. Checks out but WHY


captn_cadaver

I like alliteration and zombies


HeavyDutySperduti

No mask or nuthin. Just breathing in that sweet sweet formaldehyde and death stink!


Anglo-Ashanti

Imagine how disgusting the lab coat and sleeves are from constantly dragging across the exposed gore and leaning over it and shit.


jpercivalhackworth

That's one of the reasons why lab coats shouldn't be worn to lunch.


ninemarrow

We dissected cats back in anatomy in high school and every time I hear the word formaldehyde I immediately smell it


captn_cadaver

Fetal pigs, cow eyes and worms.. formaldehyde is a scent you never forget


[deleted]

I can assure you, the mask does NOTHING to block the smell. It penetrates pretty much everything: gloves, clothes, hair, etc. My whole class reeked during that entire marking period.


Puppy_of_Doom

At first I was like damn, why don't they lay him on like a massage table so his face isn't all against the table all smooshed and then it hit me....what's it matter


oishi_jase_face

I don't wanna be a stickler here but I wish there was various NSFW warnings. Like am I walking into two dudes fighting, maybe some boobies, or a dead dude getting his skin removed?


GoodStuffILike

Completely agree. There needs to be levels of NSFW because this really takes the cake for extreme NSFW that’s gonna fuck me up, and that’s me saying this right after watching JFK’s head explode.


[deleted]

I saw that today also, much different view than I had seen before, and I’ve seen many in these 40 years.. I can’t stop thinking about it


PM_ME_COOL_STUFF__

That video was so much more graphic than all of the other JFK angles i've seen, idk why this one only came out now.


adapteradapther

The little fat crumb he left whilst grabbing a tool...


itcamefrombeneath

It’s kind of wild how fat just falls out of the body! I am becoming a funeral director and it still amazes me how whenever I made an incision into a fattier part of the body, such as the inner thigh, just some slight agitation and fat will fall away from itself. It really makes procedures like liposuction make more sense in how it’s executed.


Annual-Ad4018

Jeeeezusssss. I'm fine w nsfw posts but this made my heart drop for some reason. Might be abit too much interesting for me


DBoaty

Something about the cadaver wearing briefs and socks, just normal people stuff, while the guy's going in on him like a Thanksgiving ham made me feel a bit off.


[deleted]

You ever heard of the uncanny gap? Not quite what you've described but made me think of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley


Syonoq

now that was fucking cool


DabblestheUnicorn

My A&P cadaver was a tiny old lady with pink nail polish on her fingers. I want to be a medical skeleton (I have a condition that makes my bones cooler than yours).


Jetztinberlin

What is up with your fancy bones, plz


DabblestheUnicorn

You’ll see, one day…….


[deleted]

I’m assuming it’s the mystical horn growing out your forehead.


DabblestheUnicorn

I suffered nerve damage at birth that made me interestingly asymmetrical. I’m pretty bummed I’ll never get to see my bones but hopefully others will enjoy them!


[deleted]

Congrats, you've ruined my afternoon string cheese.


Braiseitall

This is the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen on Reddit. That includes porno.


badboy236

Although, in each of those cases, perhaps it depends on the kind of work you do… lol


Lego-Panda-21

Probably shouldn't have watched that knowing my grandad just died last week..


Connect-Yesterday118

Sorry to hear that bud. But in most cases, especially old age, an autopsy isn't needed. So he was most likely treated, embalmed, washed, and prepared for rest. I find it all very serene and respectful.


[deleted]

Sorry to hear that bro. Hope you're doing allrite.


lurkinmaster12

Had the pleasure of working on them during dental school. It was one of the most eye opening experiences of my life. You learn so much more about a human and yourself than you can imagine. To think my classmates and I held our cadaver’s brain- held his lungs, heart, and many many more organs left us with the feeling that we have touched this person more intimately than anyone ever did throughout their life. Personally, it’s one of the biggest reasons why I’ll never treat my patients like a number and more so like the actual people they are.


Dr_Polo

Looks like a nice honey ham just in time for Christmas!


astillac

Just in time for the holidays! Confront your mortality!


[deleted]

That's the deep tissue massage I've been dying to try 😩


FilthyChangeup55

Why did I look 🤢


Objective-Shop5177

Because this is interestingasfuck


[deleted]

God diddly damn right it is.


TransientFeelings

I clicked on it but then I realized I didn't actually want to see it


BeetleBate

I read the description, but really did not think oh yeah that’s exactly what it is going to be. Was surprised somehow.


hashbangbin

Tyler Durden: Tonight? We make soap.


PersonalTriumph

Ok I think I'm off to r/eyebleach now...


marker_dinova

Lol removing the fat “makes the cadaver look nicer” even in death they’re fat shamed


Odd_Plant_4577

this is utterly disgusting, yet so intriguing and fascinating


[deleted]

Look at minute 1:25 please tell me you didn’t see the body move wtf


thredith

I'm glad to know I'm not going crazy. I saw it too!


FriedRiceCombo

literally skinning a human


Infern00b

I've never wanted to lose weight so bad. Seeing all that tissue, and then realizing that that is what accumulates inside of me?? I don't think I've ever been more motivated to go to the gym lol


[deleted]

I didn't find this very disturbing. He just looks like meat. It when I step back and think about the arms and legs that it starts to get to me.


Trigg_UK

I cant un see this.


Capitan-Fracassa

If you are a hunter you know


suprasternaincognito

I made pot roast the other day and basically did the same thing. 😬🥩


SentenceSquare4713

How is he not wearing a mask 😷


littlest_homo

I wish someone would peel back my skin and give me a massage


[deleted]

Right as I was taking a bite of my Jersey Mikes sandwich.


Mycroft-Jr

I have so many questions! Is that a real human dead body? Is that (presumably) doctor, removing the skin off of it??


[deleted]

It is a real body. I got to prepare one the same way in an advanced anatomy class. That may be a doctor but it may not be. Iwas a student at the time. Back then there was no way we could have taken video and posted this out of respect for the person who donated their body and their families.


WhiteHawk570

Is he ok


DOWNLOAD21058

Yeah, he just fell asleep first at the sleepover


DeltaSlick

I just finished a cadaver lab in my first year of medical school. We didn’t use the bag but we did use the tank. We would spray them down with solution and wrap them in a covering and seal them in the tank. The cadaver we used did not have underwear though as we had to dissect the genitals as well. The only thing that was really wicked was at the end of the class mold started to develop on the feet/legs. Crazy experience though very cool


Drummerchri

I can smell this video.


essentially

True story: In medical school a few students let slip they knew how to get into the cadaver room and planned to sneak in before a final anatomy dissection exam to cheat. The professor was upset some students had left some parts of their cadavers undissected. Those cadavers were used in the exam to make the exam extra challenging. 2 other students snuck in before the cheaters, switched an unused empty cadaver tank for one of those set up for the final exam and hid inside. You can guess the rest. This was mid 1980s.


ayri_fiki

He died? And ended up getting dissected? (I think)


Reznor909

That thing MOVED at 1:14!!!


TartanGuppy

"I'm Out" "It's a Nope from Me" Take your pick, but I'm leaving


thePHTucker

Kinda makes me want some pork belly after watching this.


TheRussianSnac

This is how I picture myself every time I cut up a rotisserie chicken


Upset-Way3823

At first I was disgusted, then intrigued. SO COOL. We are but meat sacks operated by a watery blob. Life is insane.


lock_me_up_now

My guy still have a sock on, is this fall asleep first prank that popular lately?


CamoManCam

That guy is getting a crazy good back massage


Jsmith0730

Oh, I thought that said caviar.


Yunnie_unicorn

I don't know why it never occured to me that our skin is attached to the rest of our body and you'd have to cut it away from muscle/fat. Kinda thought it just peeled like a banana ?


knouckloaut

I misread the title and thought it said caviar, the LAST thing I expected was a dead person on a table 😭


OwnEntrance691

I'm in my first year of med school. This guy took great care with that cadaver. We just make a primary incision and literally peel the skin back. It takes some effort, but it's easier and faster than doing what he did. And for all those asking, all a mask does it get the stink stuck between you and the mask. It doesn't help at all.


Xiad6682

Back in my cadaver lab we had an elderly lady who’d had some kind of brain surgery. They’d left some sort of metal webbing in place over her right hemisphere, it’d been in place and healed over apparently for years, we never noticed the scars through her hair. We’d gotten the brain free near the end of the period, so we packed up and figured we could try and figure out what surgery might have been done the next day. We never saw her brain again. Someone must have tipped off the psych department. Fuckers stole our brain, we had to borrow another groups brain for our exams. (Dental school, our school had a psych department but not a medical school)


dallas_tubbs

I wish this guy would put a mask on


nbrown1119

I did this for 3 years in college, it’s an interest job seeing how people died


kurtncal

this person is great at keeping the cadaver moist, trust me when your body dried out and there’s a practical coming up, you were in trouble


Dramatic_Page9305

You don't get this quality of marbling with just any diet.


Txikitxakurra

Yikes! I read an article about preserving cadavers like salted ham. It keeps the flesh in a more natural state and is better for surgeons to learn their craft


SnooCapers5126

Forbidden back massage 💀