Of formalin and mint chocolate cookies.

I only had one class today - BioLab.
And.. We separated the skin and identified the different muscles!!! :D

I was the "surgeon" for my group, and Gen and Ate Trinna were my assistants.
(Oh Gen, happy birthday. :D)

We got Caroline (our frog that we preserved Tuesday, LAWLZ) and washed her and gave her a little bath. :D

Basically here's the cuts that I had to make using the surgical scissors:

1. Lift the skin at the neck, make a small cut
2. Make a sagittal cut from the snout down to the anus
3. Make a transverse cut from snout to shoulder (forelimb)
4. Make a transverse cut from anus to hindlimb (proximal leg)
5. Make a frontal cut from forelimbs all the way to digits
6. Make a frontal cut from hindlimbs all the way to digits

Caroline's formalin kept seeping out, so Gen had to swab it up with cotton. Stinky stuff, that formalin. And to think it's already diluted with 3 parts water. O_O

Then, using the scalpel, I had to remove the skin.
I actually LIKED this part, it was pretty fun. :D

It was hard to remove the skin from the fingers and toes, though. It took longer than we thought. It was at this part in the activity that my nose started to hurt and my eyes began to tear up because of the formalin. It's a really bad feeling, trust me. Even with the mask and goggles, it hurts. I even had a hard time breathing. (when I was a kid I almost got asthma, it was treated and now it manifests itself as an allergy)

OH WELL.
We finished skinning the frog, then we used the colored pins to identify the different muscles according to the diagram that Ms. Avi gave us. When we were done we had to show our pinned frog to her and identify which pin is the muscle she would say.

2 mistakes, yeah yuh! :D Ahlaveeeeet. :D

I took pictures of Ms. Avi's stuffed frog, Marie. She's poseable and totally cute! :>




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Ate Trinna gave me a small pack of these Keebler cookies: Fudge Shoppe Grasshopper Fudge Dipped Mint Cookies. I opened a pack and I took a cookie and popped it in my mouth..

IT WAS DELICIOUS. SRSLY.

'Til tomorrow.
♥