Anatomical preparations /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1968.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Why use demonstrations
- How to use and present demonstrations
- Sources of specimens
- Comment to the beginner
- Preservation and dissection. Fixing, preserving, and embalming
- Dissecting
- Dry skeletons. Objectives and selection of specimens
- Cleaning by boiling
- Cleaning by maceration
- Cleaning by dermestid beetles
- Cleaning by digestion
- Bleaching, degreasing, and washing
- Gluing, reinforcing, and preserving bones and teeth
- Mounting skeletons
- Sectioning bones and teeth
- Showing the internal structure of bone
- Staining the skeleton in vivo
- Painting muscle origins and insertions on bones
- Preparing exploded skulls
- Preparing dry cartilaginous skeletons
- Wet skeletons. Cleaning articulated cartilaginous skeletons
- Staining and clearing bony skeletons
- Staining and clearing cartilaginous skeletons
- Dry preparations that relate bones to other structures. Making bone-ligament preparations
- Making bone-muscle preparations
- Making bone-integument preparations
- Vessels, ducts, and cavities. Injecting for subsequent dissection or study by x-ray
- Injecting for subsequent corrosion, cleaning, or clearing
- Demonstrating lymphatic vessels
- Nervous system. Staining thick sections of the brain
- Preparing the brain for dissection
- Preparing the intact nervous system by maceration
- Decalcifying the skeleton for dissection of the central nervous system
- Preparing cranial endocasts
- Soft tissues in general. Air-drying of hollow viscera
- Freeze-drying
- Sectioning whole animals
- Preserving organs by impregnation
- Embedding in plastic
- Displaying specimens as wet mounts
- Miscellaneous topics. Modeling, molding, and casting
- Utilizing photographic techniques
- Selecting and making containers
- Fumigating.