Dissection Safety, Tools and Anatomical Positions

What is this used for?

• Used to cut outside skin, tough tissue and sometimes bone

• Grasps small objects

• small, sharp knife used to dissect specimens

• an object that is used to examine specimens

What is this called?

• Scalpel

• Probe

• Forceps

• Pin

What is this called?

• Forceps

• Scapel

• Probe

• Scissors

What do we use this tool for?

• holding or moving tissue out of the way

• used to examine specimens

• Hold specimens on dissecting tray

• small, sharp knife used to dissect specimens

What is this tool used for?

• Used for blunt dissection & separating tissues

• Used to hold tissues down

• Used to grasp thick tissues

• Used for small, controlled cuts

What is this used for?

• Used for blunt dissection

• Used to grasp tissues

• Used for small controlled cuts

• Used for precise cutting through dense tissue or to make superficial cuts

What is the name of this tool?

• prope

• Teasing needles

• Scalpel

• Forceps

Which of the following does NOT need to be done at the end of dissection?

• washing hands

• disinfecting tables & tools

• putting specimens in storage

• All of the above need to be done

What needs to be used during dissection?

• biohazard suit

• plastic face mask

• gloves AND goggles

• hair net

The head is _____ to the shoulders.

• proximal

• caudal

• superior

• inferior