Sheep+Heart+Dissection-kp

I think our heart is one of the coolest things ever. This small organ has such strong muscles and is the body’s source of functioning. I’ve always been infatuated with the heart. I love looking at the different drawings of the heart and looking at people’s different perceptions of what it looks like and how important it can be not only physically, but mentally. As people look at the heart they think it is a simple thing that helps our body run. It is something that hurts when we go through mental pain, it hurts when we don’t feed our body right, it leaps when we are happy, and it pounds when we are nervous. In class, we all chose partners. With our partner, mine being Lydia Heter, we got to go on a journey in a sheep heart. We were able to compare the human heart with the sheep heart as we dissected it. During the heart dissection I was able to learn why all of this happens and HOW it happens. Blood is pumped in and out of the heart providing blood to the rest of the body. The process is so much more complex than this. The heart is one of the most important organs in the body. As I explored the heart I came to discover just how complex it is. I loved learning how the heart worked and how all the different muscles worked to help the heart pump blood to our bodies. For example, when we are embarrassed our cheeks get a shade of pink and our heart beats faster. This is because the muscles have to work harder to get the blood to the cheeks therefore making our heart work harder and beat faster. As our heart beats it is sucking in and pushing out so much blood. I would have to say that dissecting the heart was the highlight of my anatomy class. I loved being able to understand what is happening in our heart and how hard it is working. I liked learning about the path that blood takes throughout the heart and into the body. I was the camera person in this dissection. I loved taking pictures of the different structures of the heart at different angles. This dissection would soon prepare us for the mother of dissections (in this class), the cat dissection.