CNN.com
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Human body exposed in new exhibit
Friday, July 2, 2004 Posted: 7:02 AM EDT (1102 GMT)
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Three cadavers are displayed with their blood vessels visible in the "Body Worlds" exhibit.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A pregnant woman lies on her side with a hand behind her head as if posing for a nude photograph. But her dead body isn't the only thing exposed. Her heart, intestines and 8-month-old fetus are visible as well.
The woman was one of more than 200 people who donated their cadavers for use in "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," which makes its U.S. debut Friday at the California Science Center.
Intended to teach people about human skeletal, cardiovascular and other systems, the final exhibit includes 25 bodies that have undergone a process called "plastination" in which body fluids are replaced with clear, pliable plastic.
Most have been skinned or dissected to reveal muscles, bones, nerves and organs. Some show damage done by illnesses such as cancer and lung disease.
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Front-page fucking news! Holy shit.
(edit) Even better is the immediate visceral reaction to the....uh... viscera.
(edit) And I just noticed
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The body parts didn't bother 16-year-old Zahra Nankani, who was visiting the center as part of a youth conference on medicine.
"I think it's amazing to see real live body parts, and the vulnerability and intricacy of a human body," Nankani said. "Most people don't get to see this."
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They're NOT real live body parts. They're real
dead body parts.