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Bodies: The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. [1] It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. [2] It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995).
Body Worlds (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination. Gunther von Hagens developed the preservation process which "unite [s] subtle anatomy and modern polymer chemistry", [1] in the late 1970s.
Alt-Skalden, Reichsgau Wartheland, Germany (Now Poland) Occupation. Anatomist. Spouse. Angelina Whalley [1] Children. Rurik, Bera, and Tona [2] Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen; 10 January 1945) is a German anatomist, businessman and lecturer. He developed the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called ...
The first exhibition of whole bodies was displayed by von Hagens in Japan in 1995. Over the next two years, Von Hagens developed the Körperwelten ( Body Worlds ) public exhibitions, showing whole bodies plastinated in lifelike poses and dissected to show various structures and systems of human anatomy.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences. [1] A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin ...
Bodies: The Exhibition became the primary money maker for the firm with 19 separate human anatomy exhibitions at 33 venues while the Titanic was on exhibit at 15 locations in 2009. [33] In 2009 the company reported that 19% of its revenue came from Titanic and 67% from Bodies: The Exhibition with the rest among its other exhibitions. [3]
The human body is the entire structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems . The external human body consists of a head , hair , neck , torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen ), genitals , arms , hands , legs , and feet .