BioDiscovery: Disecting a Pig's Heart

Have you ever tried disecting a pig's heart with mixed emotions of excitement, fear and disgust? If you do, do you even hold the cutter and point it to the pericardium but hesitated if you are doing the right thing? If you do, it is a good and memorable experience!

Today in our Science subject, which is our last subject for the afternoon session, we prepared our PPEs and guts for the disection. Each of the groups brought their pig's hearts to the BioChem Laboratory.

Before disecting the heart, our teacher first instructed us on what to do and what not to do. Then, he gave us time to wash the hearts and gave each group a single answer sheet. Our group was nervous for our heart is small while the. rest are huge. We even joked around that maybe our pig's heart is not really from the pig, but from a person.

Little did we know, our group's heart was the only fresh heart among the others.

Fearing our points will be deducted, we waited for our teacher's nexf advice. We were touching the heart one-by-one because of our ignorance. Then, our teacher roamed each group tables and pointed the parts of the heart.

DISECTING TIME! Cutter is our only disecting tool. We cut the left and right areas of the heart by using the butterfly cut. The right area was easy to cut for it's tender while the left area needs a little effort for it's hard as a rock.

But even though the left area is hard to cut, we still managed to cut it. We saw the insides of the heart and took documentations of it. After, we threw our latex gloves and the heart (xoxad). Then we cleaned our tables and took the rest of the time washing our hands.

Here are some pics from the other group about our experiment.

Success!!

Discovering something new is cool and exciting. You might be afraid at first but you will have fun in the end.

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