When Judie Mancuso was in grade school she opted out of dissecting frogs and other animals. For her the common practice was torture. “I refused to be there, I didn’t want to be part of somewhere where ...

Sometimes the aorta—the largest blood vessel in our bodies—can tear, allowing blood to flow between layers of the aortic wall. This dissection can block blood from flowing to other parts of the body, ...

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish zoo is planning to publicly dissect a year-old lion that it has killed to avoid inbreeding -- a year after another Danish zoo triggered massive online protests for ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Parkland students dissect a sheep’s heart during a class that’s part of a new biomedical curriculum at the high school. The students first identified arteries and vessels and marked ...

An aortic dissection is a tear in one of the layers of the aorta. The aorta is your body’s largest blood vessel. Your aorta is made up of three layers. When a hole or tear forms in one of these layers ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...