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Virtual dissection table is fascinating, useful, and just a little creepy

Everything a dissection table should be, I suppose. I’m absolutely mesmerized by the utility of this tool, developed by Anatomage and Stanford University’s Division of Clinical Anatomy. Particularly for its ability to give anatomy students unprecedented access to special cases. Instead of waiting for a body with just the right kind of brain malformation or liver damage to come in, you can just call up the desired images from the computer and use them whenever you want.

As for the creepy: Well, for some reason it’s just a little more disturbing to see a perfectly healthy naked lady sprawled out on the anatomy table, as opposed to old, wrinkly naked people or people who have clearly recently been in poor health. (Also, potentially NSFW, natch.)

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