plastination
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Research
574 papers- Plastination-A scientific method for teaching and research.Anatomia, histologia, embryologia · 2019
- History and development of plastination techniques.Anatomia, histologia, embryologia · 2019
- E12 technique: Conventional epoxy resin sheet plastination.Anatomia, histologia, embryologia · 2019
- Plastination - authentic anatomical insights in a virtual world.Anatomia, histologia, embryologia · 2019
- E12 sheet plastination: Techniques and applications.Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) · 2018
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Process
- History
- Related preservation methods
- Uses of plastinated specimens
- Ethical concerns
- Religious opposition
- Plastination exhibitions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|240px|A plastinated and Microscope slide#Prepared mount or permanent mount|sectioned example of a diseased horse's hoof, mounted for teaching purposes
Plastination is a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “plastination” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.