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Virtual human – a living cadaver – pushes boundaries of anatomical science(2018)

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31 points the_red_mist | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 15:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.203s | source
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thih9 ◴[16 Apr 25 15:21 UTC] No.43706614[source]▶
Wikipedia has more details about the project and the donors, and high quality photos (warning, human cadaver cryosections): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
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1. polishdude20 ◴[16 Apr 25 22:56 UTC] No.43711222[source]▶
What's eerie to think about is that they don't actually make "slices" in a physical sense. They just grind away a bit, take a photo, grind away a bit, take another photo. At the end the body is just dust.
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2. thih9 ◴[17 Apr 25 08:28 UTC] No.43714318[source]▶
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