Anatomical preparations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hildebrand, Milton, 1918-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968.
Subjects:
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.