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CEBIO 261 - Human Structural Biology (Body Cavities)

3 Credits

In this course, students will be given a total of 24 lecture hours during which they will be presented with the structures of the organs contained within the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities as well as with the topographic relationships existing between these organs and the their blood and nerve supply. In a total of 15 laboratories of 2 or 3 hours each, students will dissect a human body to demonstrate the structures discussed during lectures. There will be two exams made up of multiple choice and essay questions and two practical exams in which the students will have to identify tagged structures on a human cadaver.