The smell in the room was horrible, it was a particularly nasty chemical smell that would have reminded one of a morgue. The teacher game my group a particularly large rat, and I assumed that it was because of it being bloated. Right after the first incision, a bunch of fluid began leaking out of the slit. After making the rest of the cuts to open up the rat, I rinsed it, and flipped it over to drain it. No one else in my group wanted to do any of the cutting, so I was the only one to ever even touch the scissors and scalpel.
During the dissection, we were tested on different parts, first, before the cutting, was the surface organs. Easy enough, teats, pinna, vibrisae, star fish. Then on the inside, we had to find the heart, lungs, trachea, and thymus gland. I didn't realize that I didn't cut through the ribs with the scalpel, so the teacher just came along and ripped it's ribs in half. Almost the entire period later, we finished with the abdomen portion of the dissection. Then we saw a bunch of spherical things within the rat, and the teacher said that it was pregnant. I thought those were kidneys at first, but after hearing that, I just stared at the cadaver in disbelief. I'm surprised I didn't puke after finding that out.
TL;DR: I dissected a rat and found out it was pregnant, almost puked.
Anyone else have dissection stories?
