Virtual Cadaver Lab
VictoryXR
Human Cadaver Lab
Overview
Lesson Sequence
- Review class objectives
- Hypothesize patient digestive issues
- Students gather around patient on gurney and offer ideas
- Show video clip of human digestive system
- Discuss each digestive system organ
- Teacher distributes organs to student pairs, one at a time
- discusses structure and function of each organ
- Assemble digestive organs within human cadaver
- Students are paired; organs are set next to cadaver in random order 6. Take field trip to synthetic cadaver lab
- Debrief lesson and assign homework
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Lab Details
Media Support
- Classroom Space
- CSS1 Cadaver Lab
- Virtual Field Trips & Lab Demonstrations
- FT-S-15 Comparative Anatomy
- FT-S-37 Anatomizing
- 2D Videos
- VD-S-111 Human Digestion
- 3D Objects
- OB-S-32 Human Cadaver Shell
- OB-S-14 Oral cavity
- OB-S-20 Esophagus
- OB-S-22 Stomach
- OB-S-23 Small intestine
- OB-S-24 Large Intestine
Suggested Ancillary Support
Create slides, sticky notes, and more with the following prompts related to this lesson.
- Lesson Objectives
- Describe the overall functions of the digestive system
- Differentiate between the organs of the alimentary canal
- Observe the anatomy of digestive organs
- Assemble the digestive tract
- Discussion & Vocabulary
- Alimentary Canal: organs that food moves through
- Accessory Organs: liver, gallbladder, pancreas
- Oral Cavity (teeth & tongue)
- Saliva softens food
- Mechanically grind up food
- Adults have 32 teeth?
- Incisors, canines, premolars, molars
- Top of tongue covered by papillae
- Taste buds: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
- Involved in chewing, swallowing, tasting, speaking
- Esophagus
- Sphincter valve prevents backflow
- Connects pharynx to stomach
- Moves food through peristalsis
- Stomach
- Gastric juices begin chemical digestion
- Mucus protects it from its own acidity
- Mechanically churns food
- Small Intestine
- Longest portion; averages 6-7 meters in length
- Duodenum, jejunum, ileum
- Completes chemical digestion
- All nutrient absorption occurs here
- Large Intestine
- Feces compaction
- Water and electrolyte reabsorption
- Referred to as the colon
- Ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid colons
- Averages 1.5 meters in length
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Cost Breakdown
Setup Training and Installation:
$15,000
Annual fee after first year:
$5,000
(This includes all updates, annual training for professors and 20 licenses)